vivais
\vi.vɛ\
The verdict
“vivais” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,364. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,364
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de vivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vivais · vivais · French
vivais · rank #18,364 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,364
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Villeurbanne
Nearest frequency peer: Villeurbanne (-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 « vivais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- verso
verso
81,640 corpus weight
- vignerons
vignerons
81,639 corpus weight
- Villeurbanne
Villeurbanne
81,638 corpus weight
- vivais
vivais
81,637 corpus weight
- Vivian
Vivian
81,636 corpus weight
- voilées
voilées
81,635 corpus weight
What this shows « vivais » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vivais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vivais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around vivais (IPA \vi.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,364 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for vivais, with forms such as "ivvais", "viavis", and "vivaiss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vrais", "vives", "vivant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is vivais, spelled V-I-V-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de vivre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de vivre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vivais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sûrement qu’elle s’est d’abord intéressée à moi parce qu'on m’appelait Bohem et que je vivais dans une roulotte, mais moi je me moquais de savoir le pourquoi du comment.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivvais
- viavis
- vivaiss
- vivasi
- vivias
- vivvais
- vviais
- vvivais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vivais - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).