langue vivante
\lɑ̃ɡ vi.vɑ̃t\
The verdict
“langue vivante” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Langue pour laquelle il existe des locuteurs natifs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | langue vivante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɑ̃ɡ vi.vɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “langue vivante” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for langue vivante is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɑ̃ɡ vi.vɑ̃t\. 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: "Langue pour laquelle il existe des locuteurs natifs.".
No misspelling variants are generated for langue vivante in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 langue vivante, spelled L-A-N-G-U-E- -V-I-V-A-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Langue pour laquelle il existe des locuteurs natifs.
Antonyms
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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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-N-G-U-E- -V-I-V-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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