perdre la vie
\pɛʁdʁ la vi\
The verdict
“perdre la vie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mourir de manière accidentelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-perdre-la-vie · perdre la vie · French
perdre la vie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | perdre la vie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɛʁdʁ la vi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
perdre la vie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pɛʁdʁ la vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mourir de manière accidentelle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for perdre la vie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is perdre la vie, spelled P-E-R-D-R-E- -L-A- -V-I-E.
Definition
- 1Mourir de manière accidentelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perdre la vie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il m’est revenu en mémoire une conversation avec Geronimo, quelques jours après qu’Ahiga eut perdu la vie. Pour me réconforter, noyé que j’étais dans mon chagrin, il m’avait dit à peu près ceci : « Au combat, la mort est parfois inévitable. Mais elle est toujours inutile. Pour un Apache, il n’est pas de bon moment pour mourir. La vie est le bien le plus p…
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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.