vivait
\vi.vɛ\
The verdict
“vivait” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,255. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,255
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de vivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vivait · vivait · French
vivait · rank #6,255 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,255
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vieil
Nearest frequency peer: vieil (-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 « vivait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- verrez
verrez
93,749 corpus weight
- vides
vides
93,748 corpus weight
- vieil
vieil
93,747 corpus weight
- vivait
vivait
93,746 corpus weight
- volet
volet
93,745 corpus weight
- volontairem…
volontairement
93,744 corpus weight
What this shows « vivait » 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 | vivait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vi.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vivait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around vivait (IPA \vi.vɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,255 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de vivre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for vivait, with forms such as "ivvait", "viavit", and "vivaitt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vivant", "vivent", "voyait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is vivait, spelled V-I-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de vivre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vivait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sauveur apprit aussi qu’Anne Lechat était la nièce du premier mari de Mme Compain « un tordu que le soleil d’Afrique n’avait pas arrangé », qu’elle avait trente-cinq ans (fortiche le commissaire…) qu’elle vivait près de « La Grande Maison », un peu à l’écart, qu’elle était timide et effacée mais « bonne comme le pain, toujours prête à rendre service sans…
Mr Galen n’avait tout simplement pas eu de chance de faire son arrêt cardiaque juste au moment où elle-même vivait une petite mort, à califourchon sur Mr Deal dans les toilettes pour femmes, derrière un panneau qui disait — fort à propos — HORS SERVICE.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivvait
- viavit
- vivaitt
- vivati
- viviat
- vivvait
- vviait
- vvivait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vivait - 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).