survivre

/\syʁ.vivʁ\/ verb

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.

Key facts for survivre
PropertyValue
Headwordsurvivre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\syʁ.vivʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#4,895
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of survivre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    Ne pas mourir lors d’un évènement qui aurait pu être mortel.
  2. 2
    Demeurer en vie après une autre personne.
  3. 3
    Vivre encore après la perte de ce qui était important dans sa vie.
  4. 4
    Demeurer en vie après quelqu’un ^([1]). (Emploi transitif valide jusqu’au XVIIᵉ siècle)
  5. 5
    Perdurer.
  6. 6
    Laisser après soi quelque chose ou quelqu’un qui perpétue le souvenir du nom qu’on portait, des qualités, des talents qu’on possédait.

Synonyms

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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"

sruvivre8ssurvivre9surivvre8surrvivre9survirve8surviver8survivrre9survivvre9
Misspelling Variants of "survivre"

Frequency rank: #4,895 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "survivre"?
"survivre" is spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \syʁ.vivʁ\.
What does "survivre" mean?
As a verb, "survivre" means: Ne pas mourir lors d’un évènement qui aurait pu être mortel.
What words are commonly confused with "survivre"?
"survivre" is commonly confused with "suivre", "survie", "survive". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "survivre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "survivre" is \syʁ.vivʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "survivre" come from?
"survivre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.