vive

/\viv\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,206

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

vive is aFrenchnoun. It means: Type de poisson osseux marin de l’Atlantique, de la Méditerranée et de la mer Noire, qui possède une épine dorsale venimeuse, et a la bouche inclinée vers le haut et les yeux situés au-dessus de la... Pronounced \viv\. It ranks #2,206 in French word frequency. Often confused with vue and voie.

Key facts for vive
PropertyValue
Headwordvive
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\viv\
Letters4
Frequency rank#2,206
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of vive in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vive is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \viv\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,206 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Type de poisson osseux marin de l’Atlantique, de la Méditerranée et de la mer Noire, qui possède une épine dorsale venimeuse, et a la bouche inclinée vers le haut et les yeux situés au-dessus de la...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for vive, with forms such as "ivve", "viev", and "vivve". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "vue", "voie", "vote", 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 vive, spelled V-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Type de poisson osseux marin de l’Atlantique, de la Méditerranée et de la mer Noire, qui possède une épine dorsale venimeuse, et a la bouche inclinée vers le haut et les yeux situés au-dessus de la tête, de la famille des trachinidés, par exemple la grande vive.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ivve,viev,vivve,vvie,vvive

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vive

Misspelling Variants of "vive"

ivve4viev4vivve5vvie4vvive5
Misspelling Variants of "vive"

Frequency rank: #2,206 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vive"?
"vive" is spelled V-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \viv\.
What does "vive" mean?
As a noun, "vive" means: Type de poisson osseux marin de l’Atlantique, de la Méditerranée et de la mer Noire, qui possède une épine dorsale venimeuse, et a la bouche inclinée vers le haut et les yeux situés au-dessus de la...
What words are commonly confused with "vive"?
"vive" is commonly confused with "vue", "voie", "vote". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vive"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vive" is \viv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vive" come from?
"vive" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.