livre

/\livʁ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#449

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

livre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblage de feuilles manuscrites ou imprimées destinées à être lues. Pronounced \livʁ\. It ranks #449 in French word frequency. Often confused with love and lyre.

Key facts for livre
PropertyValue
Headwordlivre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\livʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#449
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of livre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for livre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \livʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #449 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for livre, with forms such as "ilvre", "lirve", and "liver". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "love", "lyre", "lore", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 livre, spelled L-I-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assemblage de feuilles manuscrites ou imprimées destinées à être lues.
  2. 2
    Ouvrage constituant un volume imprimé.
  3. 3
    Ouvrage constituant un volume imprimé.
  4. 4
    Ouvrage constituant un volume imprimé.
  5. 5
    Ouvrage constituant un volume imprimé.
  6. 6
    Ouvrage constituant un volume imprimé.
  7. 7
    Chacune des parties principales de certains ouvrages.
  8. 8
    Ouvrage qui fait référence à un texte sacré.
  9. 9
    Registre sur lequel un commerçant doit faire figurer tous les renseignements relatifs à ses affaires, les recettes et les dépenses, achats et ventes etc.
  10. 10
    Accompagné d’une épithète de couleur (désignant la couverture) : recueil de documents.
  11. 11
    Ensemble des livres édités, et secteur d'activité littéraire et commerciale correspondant, y compris l’édition et l’imprimerie.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ilvre,lirve,liver,livrre,livvre,llivre,lvire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for livre

Misspelling Variants of "livre"

ilvre5lirve5liver5livrre6livvre6llivre6lvire5
Misspelling Variants of "livre"

Frequency rank: #449 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "livre"?
"livre" is spelled L-I-V-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \livʁ\.
What does "livre" mean?
As a noun, "livre" means: Assemblage de feuilles manuscrites ou imprimées destinées à être lues.
What words are commonly confused with "livre"?
"livre" is commonly confused with "love", "lyre", "lore". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "livre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "livre" is \livʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "livre" come from?
"livre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.