rive
French, noun
rive is spelled R-I-V-E (4 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written French, the 4,224th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rive is a French feminine noun meaning “bank (of a river)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, rivé is a different word: “past participle of river”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Terrain qui borde un fleuve, une rivière, un étang ou un lac”.
What does rive mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebank (of a river)
- 2
feminineshore
verb
- 1
past participle of river
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Terrain qui borde un fleuve, une rivière, un étang ou un lac. 2. Littoral. 3. Côté d’une planche autre qu’une face. 4. Côté d’une pile de feuilles.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rive
- rives plural
- rivée feminine
- rivés masculine plural
- rivées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to rive
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rive in French?
rive appears 18 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).