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vivier

French, noun/vi.vje/

vivier is spelled V-I-V-I-E-R (6 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 21,879th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vivier is a French masculine noun meaning “fishpond” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce d’eau courante ou d’eau dormante, dans laquelle on nourrit, on conserve du poisson ou des crustacés”.

What does vivier mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinefishpond

  2. 2

    masculinebreeding-ground

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Pièce d’eau courante ou d’eau dormante, dans laquelle on nourrit, on conserve du poisson ou des crustacés. 2. Réservoir d’eau, généralement en verre épais, dans lequel on garde des poissons destinés à la vente. 3. Eau à fleur de sol, alimentée par des sources souterraines. 4. Réserve, ressource.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of vivier

  • viviers plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce vivier?

  • /vi.vje/
  • \vi.vje\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to vivier

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is vivier in French?

vivier appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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