vivant
/vɪˈvænt/
"vivant" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vivant” is uncommon English (frequency #73,778 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,778
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In mort, bridge, and similar games, the partner of dummy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vivant · vivant · English
vivant · rank #73,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,778
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH Vistula
Nearest frequency peer: Vistula (-2 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 “vivant”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Vilna
Vilna
26,229 corpus weight
- vipassana
vipassana
26,226 corpus weight
- Vistula
Vistula
26,225 corpus weight
- vivant
vivant
26,223 corpus weight
- Vogler
Vogler
26,220 corpus weight
- voltaic
voltaic
26,218 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “vivant” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vivant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /vɪˈvænt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vivant” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vivant is uncommon English at frequency #73,778 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /vɪˈvænt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In mort, bridge, and similar games, the partner of dummy.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for vivant in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French vivant (“living”). The correct English form is vivant, spelled V-I-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1In mort, bridge, and similar games, the partner of dummy.
Etymology
Borrowed from French vivant (“living”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).