curriculum vitae
\ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm.vi.te\
The verdict
“curriculum vitae” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante orthographique de curriculum vitæ.
| 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) |
Where “curriculum vitae” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for curriculum vitae is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm.vi.te\. 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: "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.
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.
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Using “curriculum vitae”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-U-R-R-I-C-U-L-U-M- -V-I-T-A-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ky.ʁi.ky.lɔm.vi.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.