êtres vivants

/\ɛ.tʁə vi.vɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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êtres vivants is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de être vivant. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁə vi.vɑ̃\.

Key facts for êtres vivants
PropertyValue
Headwordêtres vivants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛ.tʁə vi.vɑ̃\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for êtres vivants is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁə vi.vɑ̃\. 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: "Pluriel de être vivant.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for êtres vivants in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 êtres vivants, spelled Ê-T-R-E-S- -V-I-V-A-N-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de être vivant.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "êtres vivants"?
"êtres vivants" is spelled Ê-T-R-E-S- -V-I-V-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.tʁə vi.vɑ̃\.
What does "êtres vivants" mean?
As a noun, "êtres vivants" means: Pluriel de être vivant.
How do you pronounce "êtres vivants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "êtres vivants" is \ɛ.tʁə vi.vɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "êtres vivants" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.