live

adj

The verdict

“live” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #1,848 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.

#1,848
frequency rank, Portuguese
4
letters
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que ocorre no mesmo tempo de fatos que são capturados e transmitidos

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

live vs lixo
50% similar
live vs love
75% similar
live vs lote
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for live
PropertyValue
Headwordlive
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,848
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “live” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). live lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for live is 4 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #1,848 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que ocorre no mesmo tempo de fatos que são capturados e transmitidos".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for live, with forms such as "ilve", "liev", and "livve". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lixo", "love", "lote", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is live, spelled L-I-V-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    que ocorre no mesmo tempo de fatos que são capturados e transmitidos

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ilve,liev,livve,llive,lvie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of live - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ilve2liev2livve1llive1lvie2
Edit distance from "live"

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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "live"?
"live" is spelled L-I-V-E.
What does "live" mean?
As an adjective, "live" means: que ocorre no mesmo tempo de fatos que são capturados e transmitidos
What words are commonly confused with "live"?
"live" is commonly confused with "lixo", "love", "lote". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "live" come from?
"live" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Using “live”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is L-I-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Don't mix it up with “lixo” - see the side-by-side comparison. live vs lixo
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list