survive
\syʁ.viv\
The verdict
“survive” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,035. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,035
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de survivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-survive · survive · French
survive · rank #33,035 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,035
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH surintendant
Nearest frequency peer: surintendant (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « survive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- suffise
suffise
66,969 corpus weight
- sul
sul
66,968 corpus weight
- surintendant
surintendant
66,967 corpus weight
- survive
survive
66,966 corpus weight
- survoler
survoler
66,965 corpus weight
- suédoises
suédoises
66,964 corpus weight
What this shows « survive » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | survive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.viv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « survive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around survive (IPA \syʁ.viv\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,035 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for survive, with forms such as "sruvive", "ssurvive", and "surivve". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "survolé", "survivre", "survivra", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is survive, spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de survivre.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de survivre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sruvive
- ssurvive
- surivve
- surrvive
- surviev
- survivve
- survvive
- suvrive
- usrvive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of survive - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "survive", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).