vivre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#515
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vivre is aFrenchverb. It means: Être doué de vie, être en vie. Pronounced \vivʁ\. It ranks #515 in French word frequency. Often confused with votre and voire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vivre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vivʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for vivre is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vivʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #515 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for vivre, with forms such as "ivvre", "virve", and "viver". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "votre", "voire", "vivres", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is vivre, spelled V-I-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être doué de vie, être en vie.
- 2Dérouler le cours de sa vie.
- 3Se développer, respirer, grandir, pour un organisme biologique.
- 4Employer utilement sa vie, jouir de la vie.
- 5Connaître une vie spirituelle ou mystique en religion.
- 6Être fourni des moyens de subsister, de se soutenir.
- 7Faire des dépenses, pour sa table, pour ses vêtements, etc., mener un train de vie.
- 8Passer sa vie selon les divers états que l’on embrasse, les différents lieux que l’on habite, dans une situation heureuse ou malheureuse, etc.
- 9Être soumis au gouvernement politique, aux lois, aux usages du pays dans lequel on demeure.
- 10Se sentir et s’éprouver soi-même en tout point de son être.
- 11Durer, subsister, passer à la postérité.
- 12Se nourrir ; s’alimenter.
- 13Se conduire, se comporter bien ou mal, eu égard à la morale, à la religion.
- 14Être en commerce, partager la vie de quelqu’un.
- 15Être avec quelqu’un dans un état de concubinage, cohabiter.
- 16Le subjonctif s’emploie comme formule d’acclamation.
- 17Marque l’estime qu’on porte envers quelque chose.
- 18Traverser (une expérience).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ivvre,virve,viver,vivrre,vivvre,vvire,vvivre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vivre
Misspelling Variants of "vivre"
Frequency rank: #515 in French
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Nearby French words
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