de vive force
\də viv fɔʁs\
The verdict
“de vive force” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En employant la force ou la violence ; en surmontant tous les obstacles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-de-vive-force · de vive force · French
de vive force · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | de vive force |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \də viv fɔʁs\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
de vive force is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \də viv fɔʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En employant la force ou la violence ; en surmontant tous les obstacles.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for de vive force, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is de vive force, spelled D-E- -V-I-V-E- -F-O-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1En employant la force ou la violence ; en surmontant tous les obstacles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how de vive force appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; Dantan, l'artiste chaud et à l'active intelligence, escalada le ciel comme un nouveau Titan, pénétra de vive force dans le conseil des Dieux, alla saisir madame Sculpture qui se prélassait pompeusement entre Minerve et Jupiter, et malgré les efforts du blond Apollon et du troupeau des Muses éplorées, l'entraîna avec lui sur la terre.
La question d’emporter la ville de vive force, débattue souvent dans le conseil du roi, avait toujours été écartée.
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.