lived
/lɪvd/adjective, verb
lived is spelled L-I-V-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is lieved: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Lived is an adjective meaning “Having a specified duration of life”.
How many letters and syllables are in lived?
| Letters | 5: L-I-V-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 76 times per million words; the 1,394th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, lieved, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell lived?
Lived is spelled L-I-V-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 23 of the searches for lived in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is lived?
Lived appears 76 times per million words in written English, the 1,394th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce lived?
- /lɪvd/
- /laɪvd/
Lived has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-lived.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with lived?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lived.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: devil.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does lived mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having a specified duration of life.
a short-lived recycling scheme
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of live
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).