living

\li.viŋ\

/\li.viŋ\/ noun

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The verdict

“living” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,777. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,777
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Séjour ; pièce à vivre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-living · living · French

living · rank #20,777 · 9 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,777
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH lilas

Nearest frequency peer: lilas (-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 « living »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « living » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

living vs Loing
50% similar
living vs loving
83% similar
living vs Livia
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for living
PropertyValue
Headwordliving
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\li.viŋ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,777
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « living »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).livingse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « lilas » (#20,776), « livrets » (#20,778), « lieues » (#20,775). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « living » est au #20,777. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around living (IPA \li.viŋ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,777 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Séjour ; pièce à vivre.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for living, with forms such as "ilving", "liivng", and "livign". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Loing", "loving", "Livia", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is living, spelled L-I-V-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Séjour ; pièce à vivre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how living appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le fabricant des tentes Messager par exemple montra au Salon du Camping à Paris en 1967 son tout nouveau modèle de tente très compacte avec une chambre et un living équipés de meubles pliants adaptés, avec une décoration très élaborée : […].

Synonyms

living-roomvivoir

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ilving
  • liivng
  • livign
  • livingg
  • livinng
  • livnig
  • livving
  • lliving
  • lviing

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of living - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ilving2liivng2livign2livingg1livinng1livnig2livving1lliving1
Edit distance from "living"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "living"?
"living" is spelled L-I-V-I-N-G. The IPA pronunciation is \li.viŋ\.
What does "living" mean?
As a noun, "living" means: Séjour ; pièce à vivre.
What words are commonly confused with "living"?
"living" is commonly confused with "Loing", "loving", "Livia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "living"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "living" is \li.viŋ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "living" come from?
"living" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "living", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

lieues#20,775lester#20,774lézard#20,782labels#20,771

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Marcelo9 variantsJacobs9 variantsIngrid9 variantsnoisette9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list