ive
\iv\
The verdict
“ive” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,178) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,178
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Germandrée dont les feuilles, légèrement amères et aromatiques, sont employées en médecine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ive · ive · French
ive · rank #20,178 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,178
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH islamo
Nearest frequency peer: islamo (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ive »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- inéluctable
inéluctable
79,826 corpus weight
- ISBN
ISBN
79,825 corpus weight
- islamo
islamo
79,824 corpus weight
- ive
ive
79,823 corpus weight
- Jared
Jared
79,822 corpus weight
- Jeep
Jeep
79,821 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ive » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \iv\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ive »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ive is neighbouring look-alikes ("ix", "IVG", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \iv\. Frequency #20,178 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Germandrée dont les feuilles, légèrement amères et aromatiques, sont employées en médecine.".
ive doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ix", "IVG", "ivy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ive, spelled I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Germandrée dont les feuilles, légèrement amères et aromatiques, sont employées en médecine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'ive est aussi dite germandrée petit if.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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