curriculum vitae
\ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm.vi.te\
The verdict
“curriculum vitae” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de curriculum vitæ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curriculum-vitae · curriculum vitae · French
curriculum vitae · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | curriculum vitae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curriculum vitae » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curriculum vitae is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de curriculum vitæ.".
No misspelling variants are generated for curriculum vitae in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is curriculum vitae, spelled C-U-R-R-I-C-U-L-U-M- -V-I-T-A-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de curriculum vitæ.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curriculum vitae appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils écriront, pleins d’espoir, des curriculum vitae soigneusement pesés.
Joueur modèle, mais aussi photographe, navigateur et gastronome. Il faudra désormais ajouter « retraité » au long curriculum vitae de Boris Diaw, qui a annoncé sa retraite jeudi 6 septembre à l’âge de 36 ans.
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.