mémoire vive
\me.mwaʁ viv\
The verdict
“mémoire vive” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de personnes encore vivantes témoins d’un événement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-memoire-vive · mémoire vive · French
mémoire vive · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mémoire vive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.mwaʁ viv\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mémoire vive is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.mwaʁ viv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mémoire vive doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mémoire vive, spelled M-É-M-O-I-R-E- -V-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de personnes encore vivantes témoins d’un événement.
- 2Mémoire dont le contenu peut être modifié en usage normal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mémoire vive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fracas des trois premières semaines du procès consacrées aux dépositions des survivants et des témoins, auquel avaient succédé les explications tour à tour laborieuses, agacées, éruptives, souvent décevantes, des onze accusés interrogés, étaient alors dans la mémoire vive.
La mémoire vive est généralement effacée sitôt que l’ordinateur est éteint.
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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.