style de vie
\stil də vi\
The verdict
“style de vie” 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 May 6, 2026) - Manière de vivre — d’être et de penser — d’une personne ou d’un groupe d’individus. C’est son comportement quotidien, sa façon de vivre autour et pour certaines valeurs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | style de vie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \stil də vi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “style de vie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
style de vie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \stil də vi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for style de vie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is style de vie, spelled S-T-Y-L-E- -D-E- -V-I-E.
Definition
- 1Manière de vivre — d’être et de penser — d’une personne ou d’un groupe d’individus. C’est son comportement quotidien, sa façon de vivre autour et pour certaines valeurs.
- 2Façon dont une personne ou un groupe vit.
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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.
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Using “style de vie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-T-Y-L-E- -D-E- -V-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \stil də vi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.