RemivsRevisTell them apart

Quick tell: Remi is a noun, Revis is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Remi” is a noun and “Revis” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,416
“Remi” frequency rank
#49,593
“Revis” frequency rank
90009
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Remi Revis
Definition A Belgic tribe dwelling in the Aisne, Vesle and Suippe river valleys during the Iron Age and the Roman period. A surname.

Letter map: Remi vs Revis

Shared letters muted; letters that set Remi and Revis apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Remi runs 4 letters (CVCV) against Revis's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Remi
5 ch
Revis

Part-of-speech tell for Remi / Revis

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Remi is anoun and Revisaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 90009, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Remi is recorded at frequency rank #40,416, classified as anoun. Revis is at rank #49,593, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 90009, this pair ranks #4,578 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Remi vs Revis

Shared letters: eir. Private to "Remi": m. Private to "Revis": sv.

"Remi" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "Revis" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Remi ← ermi · reim · remmi · rmei · rremi
  • Revis ← ervis · reivs · reviss · revsi · revvis · rrevis · rveis

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Remi" for "Revis" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Remi" is a noun and "Revis" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "Remi" or "Revis" show up more?
"Remi" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40,416 in our English list, against #49,593 for "Revis". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "Remi" and "Revis". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Remi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Revis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #4,578 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Remi" and "Revis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reams vs Revis". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #4,578 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list