à vie
\a vi\
The verdict
“à vie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pendant tout le temps qu’on a à vivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a-vie · à vie · French
à vie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "À" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à vie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a vi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « à vie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
à vie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pendant tout le temps qu’on a à vivre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for à vie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is à vie, spelled À- -V-I-E.
Definition
- 1Pendant tout le temps qu’on a à vivre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how à vie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une pension à vie.
Contrat à vie.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.