chaux vive

/\ʃo viv\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

chaux vive is aFrenchnoun. It means: Oxyde de calcium (CaO). C’est un produit caustique pour la matière vivante. On la fabrique en chauffant du calcaire (CaCO₃) à 900 °C. Si on lui ajoute de l’eau elle se transforme en chaux éteinte c... Pronounced \ʃo viv\.

Key facts for chaux vive
PropertyValue
Headwordchaux vive
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃo viv\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chaux vive is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chaux vive is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃo viv\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Oxyde de calcium (CaO). C’est un produit caustique pour la matière vivante. On la fabrique en chauffant du calcaire (CaCO₃) à 900 °C. Si on lui ajoute de l’eau elle se transforme en chaux éteinte c...".

No misspelling variants are generated for chaux vive in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chaux vive, spelled C-H-A-U-X- -V-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Oxyde de calcium (CaO). C’est un produit caustique pour la matière vivante. On la fabrique en chauffant du calcaire (CaCO₃) à 900 °C. Si on lui ajoute de l’eau elle se transforme en chaux éteinte c’est à dire en hydroxyde de calcium (Ca(OH)₂). Si on la laisse à l’air libre elle se combine au gaz carbonique (CO₂) et se retransforme en calcaire (CaCO₃).

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chaux vive"?
"chaux vive" is spelled C-H-A-U-X- -V-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃo viv\.
What does "chaux vive" mean?
As a noun, "chaux vive" means: Oxyde de calcium (CaO). C’est un produit caustique pour la matière vivante. On la fabrique en chauffant du calcaire (CaCO₃) à 900 °C. Si on lui ajoute de l’eau elle se transforme en chaux éteinte c...
How do you pronounce "chaux vive"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chaux vive" is \ʃo viv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chaux vive" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.