survivre

\syʁ.vivʁ\

/\syʁ.vivʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“survivre” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,895
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ne pas mourir lors d’un évènement qui aurait pu être mortel.

Corpus desk

Index FR-survivre · survivre · French

survivre · rank #4,895 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,895
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH spécialisé

Nearest frequency peer: spécialisé (-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 « survivre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « survivre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

survivre vs suivre
75% similar
survivre vs survie
75% similar
survivre vs survive
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « survivre »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).survivrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « spécialisé » (#4,894), « symbolique » (#4,896), « soupe » (#4,893). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « survivre » est au #4,895. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around survivre (IPA \syʁ.vivʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,895 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for survivre, with forms such as "sruvivre", "ssurvivre", and "surivvre". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "suivre", "survie", "survive", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is survivre, spelled S-U-R-V-I-V-R-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how survivre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il vaut mieux que tu lui aies survécu pour m'aider à retrouver les scélérats qui l'ont assassinée, dit Hervé.
  2. Trois furent trachéotomisées, et ne purent jamais être décanulées ; deux d'entre elles ont survécu des années, mais l'une est morte huit mois plus tard dans des conditions que je n'ai pu préciser.

Synonyms

réchapper

This word in other languages

survive(English)überleben(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • sruvivre
  • ssurvivre
  • surivvre
  • surrvivre
  • survirve
  • surviver
  • survivrre
  • survivvre
  • survvire
  • survvivre
  • suvrivre
  • usrvivre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of survivre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

sruvivre2ssurvivre1surivvre2surrvivre1survirve2surviver2survivrre1survivvre1
Edit distance from "survivre"

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.

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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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "survivre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

synthèse#4,897tournant#4,899versions#4,902acquérir#4,906

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

pompiers12 variantsassistant12 variantsmasculin12 variantscommander12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list