live
\liv\
The verdict
“live” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,524. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,524
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue éteinte appartenant à la branche fennique de la famille des langues finno-ougriennes (principalement en Livonie).
Corpus desk
Index FR-live · live · French
live · rank #2,524 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,524
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lieutenant
Nearest frequency peer: lieutenant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « live »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- installer
installer
97,481 corpus weight
- jambes
jambes
97,479 corpus weight
- lieutenant
lieutenant
97,478 corpus weight
- live
live
97,477 corpus weight
- locales
locales
97,475 corpus weight
- magazine
magazine
97,474 corpus weight
What this shows « live » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | live |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \liv\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « live »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around live (IPA \liv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,524 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langue éteinte appartenant à la branche fennique de la famille des langues finno-ougriennes (principalement en Livonie).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for live, with forms such as "ilve", "liev", and "livve". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lv", "lue", "liz", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is live, spelled L-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Langue éteinte appartenant à la branche fennique de la famille des langues finno-ougriennes (principalement en Livonie).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how live appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’usage du live disparaîtra en Livonie au milieu du XIXᵉ siècle ; la langue n’était plus parlée, au début des années soixante-dix du XXᵉ siècle, en association avec le letton, que par une centaine d’habitants de douze villages bilingues de pêcheurs, au nord de la péninsule de Courlande.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilve
- liev
- livve
- llive
- lvie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of live - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).