sciences de la vie
\sjɑ̃s də la vi\
The verdict
“sciences de la vie” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Ensembles des domaines d’études scientifiques qui impliquent des êtres vivants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sciences de la vie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sjɑ̃s də la vi\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sciences de la vie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sciences de la vie is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sjɑ̃s də la vi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ensembles des domaines d’études scientifiques qui impliquent des êtres vivants.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sciences de la vie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 sciences de la vie, spelled S-C-I-E-N-C-E-S- -D-E- -L-A- -V-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensembles des domaines d’études scientifiques qui impliquent des êtres vivants.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is S-C-I-E-N-C-E-S- -D-E- -L-A- -V-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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