vivid
\vɪ.vɪd\
The verdict
“vivid” is uncommon French (frequency #88,219 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,219
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vivide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vivid · vivid · French
vivid · rank #88,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,219
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH visitor
Nearest frequency peer: visitor (-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 « vivid »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- virevoltant
virevoltant
11,785 corpus weight
- visitaient
visitaient
11,784 corpus weight
- visitor
visitor
11,783 corpus weight
- vivid
vivid
11,782 corpus weight
- volatilisée
volatilisée
11,781 corpus weight
- Vollard
Vollard
11,780 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vivid » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vivid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \vɪ.vɪd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vivid » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vivid is uncommon French at frequency #88,219 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \vɪ.vɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vivid, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is vivid, spelled V-I-V-I-D.
Definition
- 1Vivide.
- 2Vif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vivid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
vivid imagery
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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