vie

/\vi\/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#117

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

vie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Activité spontanée propre aux êtres organisés, qui se manifeste par les fonctions de nutrition et de reproduction, auxquelles s’ajoutent chez certains êtres les fonctions de relation et, chez l’êtr... Pronounced \vi\. It ranks #117 in French word frequency. Often confused with vu and vs.

Key facts for vie
PropertyValue
Headwordvie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\vi\
Letters3
Frequency rank#117
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vie is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vi\. Corpus data places it at rank #117 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vu", "vs", "vo", 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 vie, spelled V-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Activité spontanée propre aux êtres organisés, qui se manifeste par les fonctions de nutrition et de reproduction, auxquelles s’ajoutent chez certains êtres les fonctions de relation et, chez l’être humain, la raison et le libre arbitre.
  2. 2
    Se dit de certaines activités de l’homme.
  3. 3
    Tout l'espace de temps qui s’étend depuis la naissance jusqu'à la mort.
  4. 4
    Conditions dans lesquelles une personne vient au monde et passe son existence.
  5. 5
    Ce qui regarde la nourriture et la subsistance.
  6. 6
    Ce qui regarde l’usage, les commodités ou les incommodités de la vie quotidienne.
  7. 7
    Fait de vivre.
  8. 8
    Façon de vivre.
  9. 9
    Les occupations et les activités différentes de la vie.
  10. 10
    Manière dont le monde se comporte.
  11. 11
    Biographie ; relation historique ou récit des faits remarquables et des traits caractéristiques de la vie d’un homme illustre.
  12. 12
    (avec une épithète) Criaillerie, querelle bruyante faite à quelqu’un.
  13. 13
    État propre aux êtres vivants. Ensemble des activités spontanées sur notre planète depuis leur commencement.
  14. 14
    Coût de la vie, cherté des denrées nécessaires à l’entretien des ménages.
  15. 15
    Foulard qu’on introduit dans son pantalon par derrière, et dont l’adversaire doit se saisir. Jeu correspondant.

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Frequency rank: #117 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vie"?
"vie" is spelled V-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \vi\.
What does "vie" mean?
As a noun, "vie" means: Activité spontanée propre aux êtres organisés, qui se manifeste par les fonctions de nutrition et de reproduction, auxquelles s’ajoutent chez certains êtres les fonctions de relation et, chez l’êtr...
What words are commonly confused with "vie"?
"vie" is commonly confused with "vu", "vs", "vo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vie" is \vi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vie" come from?
"vie" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.