vif
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,089
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vif is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est en vie. Pronounced [vif]. It ranks #5,089 in French word frequency. Often confused with vu and vs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [vif] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vif is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vif]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,089 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vif 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 vif, spelled V-I-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est en vie.
- 2Qualifie le tissu organique qui a gardé les propriétés vitales.
- 3Qui a beaucoup de vigueur et d’activité, rapide.
- 4Se dit d’une personne qui s’impatiente, qui s’emporte facilement.
- 5Qui conçoit, qui produit promptement et facilement.
- 6Qualifie certaines choses, soit physiques, soit morales, pour marquer la force, la violence de l’impression qu’elles font sur nous.
- 7Qualifie un regard brillant et plein de feu.
- 8Se dit d’une couleur éclatante, brillante, pure, sans autre nuance.
- 9Qualifie un tir rapide, nourri et continu.
- 10Qualifie ce qui est exprimé avec force, avec chaleur, de ce qui est énergique, animé.
- 11Qualifie les expressions où se fait sentir le feu de l’imagination, les traits piquants.
- 12Qualifie des propos qui approchent de l’insulte.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #5,089 in French
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