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Yes. The word vie is a Scrabble US word. The word vie is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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3-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of vie

vie

Translingual

Symbol

vie

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Vietnamese.

Etymology

Aphetic form of envy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vaɪ/
  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Verb

vie (third-person singular simple present vies, present participle vying or vieing, simple past and past participle vied)

  1. (intransitive) To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To rival (something), etc.
  3. (transitive) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
  4. To stake; to wager.
  5. To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.

Synonyms

  • battle
  • compete
  • oppose

Antonyms

  • concede
  • reconcile

Translations

Noun

vie (plural vies)

  1. (obsolete) A contest.

See also

Anagrams

  • -ive, I've

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin vita.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

  1. life

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

Verb

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past viede, past participle viet)

  1. dedicate something to someone or towards a cause
  2. wed two persons into marriage

Derived terms

  • indvie
  • vielse
  • vievand

Finnish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋie̯/, [ˈʋie̞̯]
  • Rhymes: -ie
  • Syllabification(key): vie

Verb

vie

  1. third-person singular present indicative of viedä

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋie̯ˣ/, [ˈʋie̞̯(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ie
  • Syllabification(key): vie

Verb

vie

  1. inflection of viedä:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

  • vei

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi/
  • Homophones: vies, vis, vit

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French vie, from older Old French viḍe, from Vulgar Latin vītam, from Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā.

Noun

vie f (countable and uncountable, plural vies)

  1. life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death
  2. life, period in which one is alive, between birth and death
  3. biography, life
  4. life, lifeforms
    l’apparition de la vie sur Terrethe appearance of life on Earth
  5. cost of living

Derived terms
Descendants
  • Antillean Creole: vi
  • Guianese Creole: lavi
  • Haitian Creole: lavi
  • Louisiana Creole: vi
  • Seychellois Creole: lavi

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin via. Compare voie.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

  1. (Switzerland, Jura) way, path (road, railway, etc)
Related terms
  • vionnet (Switzerland, rare)

Further reading

  • “vie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi.e/
  • Rhymes: -ie
  • Hyphenation: vì‧e

Noun

vie f

  1. plural of via

Anagrams

  • -evi, evi

Latin

Verb

viē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of vieō

Manx

Adjective

vie

  1. Lenited form of mie.

Mutation

References

  • Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (2003)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse vígja, from Proto-Germanic *wīhijaną.

Verb

vie (imperative vi, present tense vier, simple past vigde or vidde or via or viet, past participle vigd or vidd or via or viet)

  1. dedicate something to someone or towards a cause
  2. wed two persons into marriage

Derived terms

  • innvie
  • vielse
  • vievann

References

  • “vie” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

vie (present tense vier, past tense vigde, supine vigd or vigt, past participle vigd, present participle viande, imperative vi)

  1. alternative form of via

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vīta.

Noun

vie oblique singularf (oblique plural vies, nominative singular vie, nominative plural vies)

  1. life

Descendants

  • Middle French: vie
    • French: vie
      • Antillean Creole: vi
      • Guianese Creole: lavi
      • Haitian Creole: lavi
      • Louisiana Creole: vi
      • Seychellois Creole: lavi
    • Norman: vie (Guernésiais)
  • Walloon: veye, vèie

Picard

Etymology

From Latin vita.

Noun

vie f (plural vies)

  1. life

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi.e/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin vīnea.

Noun

vie f (plural vii)

  1. vineyard
  2. vine
    Synonym: viță
Declension
Derived terms
  • viță de vie
Related terms
  • vier

Etymology 2

Forms of the adjective viu.

Adjective

vie

  1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of viu
Alternative forms
  • via

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin vīvere, present active infinitive of vīvō, from Proto-Italic *gʷīwō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti (to live, be alive).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvie/

Verb

a vie (third-person singular present vie, past participle vis) 3rd conj.

  1. (rare, dated) to have life; to live, exist
  2. (of intangibles, such as emotions and beliefs) to endure
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • dura
  • exista
  • fi
  • trăi
  • viețui
Derived terms
  • viere
Related terms
  • învie
References

MDA2 via *vie in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Slovak

Verb

vie

  1. third-person singular present of vedieť

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