vivoter
French, verb/vi.vɔ.te/
vivoter is spelled V-I-V-O-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 123,735th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vivoter is a French verb meaning “to struggle, to get by, make ends meet (live without luxury)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vivre petitement, subsister avec peine”.
What does vivoter mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto struggle, to get by, make ends meet (live without luxury)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Vivre petitement, subsister avec peine.
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 vivoter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- vivotant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- vivoté participle past
- vivote first-person indicative present
- vivotes indicative present second-person
- vivotons first-person indicative plural
- vivotez indicative plural present
- vivotent indicative plural present
- vivotais first-person imperfect indicative
- vivotait imperfect indicative singular
- vivotions first-person imperfect indicative
- vivotiez imperfect indicative plural
- vivotaient imperfect indicative plural
- vivotai first-person historic indicative
- vivotas historic indicative past
- vivota historic indicative past
- vivotâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vivoter?
- /vi.vɔ.te/
- \vi.vɔ.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vivoter in French?
vivoter appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).