vivable
\vi.vabl\
The verdict
“vivable” is uncommon French (frequency #52,425 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,425
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Supportable ; agréable à vivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vivable · vivable · French
vivable · rank #52,425 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,425
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH viscères
Nearest frequency peer: viscères (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « vivable »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Villanueva
Villanueva
47,579 corpus weight
- virant
virant
47,578 corpus weight
- viscères
viscères
47,577 corpus weight
- vivable
vivable
47,576 corpus weight
- vivi
vivi
47,575 corpus weight
- voiturette
voiturette
47,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vivable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vivable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vi.vabl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vivable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vivable is uncommon French at frequency #52,425 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vi.vabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Supportable ; agréable à vivre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vivable, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 vivable, spelled V-I-V-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Supportable ; agréable à vivre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vivable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les contemporains de Napoléon et les historiens sont d'accord sur un point : tout prouve que, durant les six premiers mois de sa souveraineté elboise, Napoléon était résigné à son sort et l'Europe n'avait donc rien à craindre ; encore eut-il été politique et raisonnable, si l'on souhaitait que cela durât, d'en être convaincu et de maintenir une situation…
Je sais que je ne suis pas normale. Que ce n’est pas vivable pour les autres. Que je retombe toujours.
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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.
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