livre
/ˈliːvɹə/
"livre" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“livre” is uncommon English (frequency #57,522 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,522
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
Corpus desk
Index EN-livre · livre · English
livre · rank #57,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,522
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH litigate
Nearest frequency peer: litigate (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “livre”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- leucine
leucine
42,484 corpus weight
- lineal
lineal
42,482 corpus weight
- Lipman
Lipman
42,481 corpus weight
- litigate
litigate
42,480 corpus weight
- livre
livre
42,479 corpus weight
- Lockport
Lockport
42,476 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “livre” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | livre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈliːvɹə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “livre” in English
Rare enough to double-check
livre is uncommon English at frequency #57,522 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈliːvɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
livre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French livre. Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litra, litre, and rottol. The correct English form is livre, spelled L-I-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
- 2A lira
- 3An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how livre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They like to see them awarded comfortable pensions. Is it 700,000 livres a year to the Polignac family?
He never, it should be noted, totally renounced his inheritance: a critic of the court round, he benefited to the tune of a cool two million livres a year from royal largesse […].
Etymology
Borrowed from French livre. Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litra, litre, and rottol.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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