živý

/\ˈʒɪ.viː\/ adj

Letters

4 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

živý is anFrenchadj. It means: Vivant. Pronounced \ˈʒɪ.viː\.

Key facts for živý
PropertyValue
Headwordživý
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ˈʒɪ.viː\
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

živý is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for živý is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈʒɪ.viː\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Vivant.".

No misspelling variants are generated for živý in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 živý, spelled Ž-I-V-Ý, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vivant.

Antonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "živý"?
"živý" is spelled Ž-I-V-Ý. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈʒɪ.viː\.
What does "živý" mean?
As an adj, "živý" means: Vivant.
How do you pronounce "živý"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "živý" is \ˈʒɪ.viː\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "živý" come from?
"živý" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.