live

Where “live” sits in English frequency

Definition

1. 1
   To be alive; to have life.
2. 2
   To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
3. 3
   To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
4. 4
   To survive; to persevere; to continue.
5. 5
   To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
6. 6
   To cope.
7. 7
   To pass life in a specified manner.
8. 8
   To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually.
9. 9
   To act habitually in conformity with; to practice; to exemplify in one's way of life.
10. 10
    To live as; to live being.
11. 11
    To outlast danger; (of a ship or boat) to float.
12. 12
    To maintain or support one's existence; to provide for oneself; to feed; to subsist.
13. 13
    To make the most of life; to experience a full, rich life.

Etymology

From Middle English lefe, lifen, libbe, libben, live, luvien, lyven, from Old English libban, lifian (“to live; be alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick”). Cognates Cognate with Yola live (“to live”), North Frisian laawe, lawe, lewe, lewi, lewwe, lääwe (“to live”), Saterland Frisian lieuwje, líeuwje (“to live”), West Frisian libje (“to live”), Alemannic German lëëbe (“to live”), Cimbrian and Mòcheno lem (“to live”), Dutch leeven, leven (“to live”), German leben (“to live”), German Low German lęven (“to live”), Limburgish leve, léëve (“to live”), Luxembourgish liewen (“to live”), Vilamovian łaowa (“to live”), Yiddish לעבן (lebn, “to live”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål leve (“to live”), Faroese liva (“to live”), Icelandic lifa (“to live”), Norwegian Nynorsk leva, leve, liva (“to live”), Swedish leva (“to live”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (liban, “to live”); also Latin lippus (“half-sighted, myopic”), Greek λίπος (lípos, “fat, tallow”), Lithuanian lipti (“to stick”), Bulgarian лепя́ (lepjá, “to glue, paste, stick; to plaster, smear”), Czech lepit (“to glue, stick”), Macedonian лепи (lepi, “to glue, stick”), Polish lepić (“to mold; to glue, paste; to stick”), Russian лепи́ть (lepítʹ, “to fashion, sculpt, shape”), Serbo-Croatian лепити, лије́пити, lépiti, lijépiti (“to glue, paste; to stick”), Slovak lepiť (“to stick”), Slovene lepiti (“to stick”), Ukrainian ліпити (lipyty, “to mould, shape”), Sanskrit लिप् (lip, “to anoint, smear; to defile, soil, taint”), रिप् (rip, “deceit, fraud; injury; enemy, traitor”).

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ilve,liev,livve,llive,lvie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of live - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

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