vive

verb

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,104

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

vive is aPortugueseverb. It means: terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo viver It ranks #1,104 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with você and vivo.

Key facts for vive
PropertyValue
Headwordvive
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechVerb
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,104
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of vive in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for vive is 4 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #1,104 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for vive, with forms such as "ivve", "viev", and "vivve". 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, "você", "vivo", "vivi", 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 Portuguese form is vive, spelled V-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo viver
  2. 2
    segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo do verbo viver

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ivve,viev,vivve,vvie,vvive

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vive

Misspelling Variants of "vive"

ivve4viev4vivve5vvie4vvive5
Misspelling Variants of "vive"

Frequency rank: #1,104 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vive"?
"vive" is spelled V-I-V-E.
What does "vive" mean?
As a verb, "vive" means: terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo viver
What words are commonly confused with "vive"?
"vive" is commonly confused with "você", "vivo", "vivi". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "vive" come from?
"vive" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter V in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.