survivre
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,895
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
survivre is aFrenchverb. It means: Ne pas mourir lors d’un évènement qui aurait pu être mortel. Pronounced \syʁ.vivʁ\. It ranks #4,895 in French word frequency. Often confused with suivre and survie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | survivre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \syʁ.vivʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for survivre is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \syʁ.vivʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,895 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for survivre, with forms such as "sruvivre", "ssurvivre", and "surivvre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "suivre", "survie", "survive", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 survivre, spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne pas mourir lors d’un évènement qui aurait pu être mortel.
- 2Demeurer en vie après une autre personne.
- 3Vivre encore après la perte de ce qui était important dans sa vie.
- 4Demeurer en vie après quelqu’un ^([1]). (Emploi transitif valide jusqu’au XVIIᵉ siècle)
- 5Perdurer.
- 6Laisser après soi quelque chose ou quelqu’un qui perpétue le souvenir du nom qu’on portait, des qualités, des talents qu’on possédait.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sruvivre,ssurvivre,surivvre,surrvivre,survirve,surviver,survivrre,survivvre,survvire,survvivre,suvrivre,usrvivre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for survivre
Misspelling Variants of "survivre"
Frequency rank: #4,895 in French
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