vives
\viv\
The verdict
“vives” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,637. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,637
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de vif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vives · vives · French
vives · rank #7,637 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,637
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH vendue
Nearest frequency peer: vendue (-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 « vives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vaccin
vaccin
92,367 corpus weight
- valence
valence
92,366 corpus weight
- vendue
vendue
92,365 corpus weight
- vives
vives
92,364 corpus weight
- vulgaire
vulgaire
92,363 corpus weight
- vérifie
vérifie
92,362 corpus weight
What this shows « vives » 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 | vives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \viv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « vives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around vives (IPA \viv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,637 among 2,061 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de vif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for vives, with forms such as "ivves", "vievs", and "vivess". 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, "vues", "VIVO", "vivre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is vives, spelled V-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de vif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais en ce moment, tout entier à la fatigue du bonheur, cette délicieuse mélancolie du corps, il ne pouvait guère s’analyser le cœur en reprenant sur ses lèvres le goût des plus vives voluptés qu’il eût encore égrappées.
Ici on se chamaille — on s’est chamaillé pour les lettres de Zola, on s’est chamaillé pour le ministère Dufaure, on se chamaille pour la présidence Grévy, on ne déchamaille pas ; je m’abstiens complètement de ces sortes de choses et lorsque, le jeudi soir, les discussions deviennent un peu vives, je rentre paisiblement me coucher, trouvant mon lit supérie…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivves
- vievs
- vivess
- vivse
- vivves
- vvives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vives - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).