lived
\lɪvd\
The verdict
“lived” is uncommon French (frequency #91,890 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,890
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit de live.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lived · lived · French
lived · rank #91,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,890
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH listeria
Nearest frequency peer: listeria (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « lived »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- licencieux
licencieux
8,116 corpus weight
- lieus
lieus
8,115 corpus weight
- listeria
listeria
8,112 corpus weight
- lived
lived
8,111 corpus weight
- Lofoten
Lofoten
8,108 corpus weight
- longitudina…
longitudinaux
8,106 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lived » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lived |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lɪvd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lived » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lived is uncommon French at frequency #91,890 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lɪvd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lived, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lived, spelled L-I-V-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit de live.
- 2Participe passé de live.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lived appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All three texts play with imagery drawn directly from the lived observation that a she-bear is very dangerous if one interferes with her cubs.
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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