vie privée
\vi pʁi.ve\
The verdict
“vie privée” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Domaine personnel, par opposition au domaine public.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vie-privee · vie privée · French
vie privée · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vie privée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vi pʁi.ve\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vie privée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vie privée is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vi pʁi.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Domaine personnel, par opposition au domaine public.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vie privée, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vie privée, spelled V-I-E- -P-R-I-V-É-E.
Definition
- 1Domaine personnel, par opposition au domaine public.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vie privée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous ne voulons pas entrer dans la vie privée de beaucoup de canotiers ; mais à en croire les apparences, le canotage ne serait, pour quelques amateurs, qu’un prétexte d’orgies, une occasion de plaisirs faciles, au lieu d’un amusement salutaire et convenable à la dignité de l’homme.
La maxime de M. Royer-Collard : « La vie privée doit être murée, » avait été inventée depuis bien des siècles par l’Orient, cette terre du soleil, d’où vient toute lumière et toute sagesse.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.