vivir
\biˈβiɾ\
The verdict
“vivir” is uncommon French (frequency #99,749 among 2,061 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,749
- frequency rank, French
- 2,061
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vivir · vivir · French
vivir · rank #99,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,749
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,061
- PHOTO-FINISH Vitet
Nearest frequency peer: Vitet (-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 « vivir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- viseurs
viseurs
255 corpus weight
- visiting
visiting
254 corpus weight
- Vitet
Vitet
253 corpus weight
- vivir
vivir
252 corpus weight
- vocaliste
vocaliste
250 corpus weight
- vrmt
vrmt
249 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « vivir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vivir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \biˈβiɾ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vivir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vivir is uncommon French at frequency #99,749 among 2,061 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \biˈβiɾ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vivre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for vivir in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 vivir, spelled V-I-V-I-R.
Definition
- 1Vivre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vivir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quiero vivir en España.
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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