How to spell lives

Lives is spelled L-I-V-E-S.

hear it/lɪvz/verbLong vowels

What it means: To make a home in a specific place.

In a sentence: The cat lives in the big, cozy barn.

Same family: live, living, life, lived, lively. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Lives comes from the Old English verb ‘libban’ or ‘lifian,’ meaning ‘to live,’ and is both the plural of ‘life’ and the third-person singular form of ‘live.’ English is unusual in having the vowel change life → lives (like knife → knives), a pattern that goes back to older Germanic sound changes.

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