revanche

/\ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,834

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

revanche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action par laquelle on reprend sur quelqu’un l’avantage qu’il avait pris. Action de rendre la pareille pour un mal qu'on a reçu. Pronounced \ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ\. It ranks #1,834 in French word frequency. Often confused with relance and relâché.

Key facts for revanche
PropertyValue
Headwordrevanche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,834
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of revanche in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for revanche is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,834 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for revanche, with forms such as "ervanche", "reavnche", and "revacnhe". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "relance", "relâché", "relancée", 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 French form is revanche, spelled R-E-V-A-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action par laquelle on reprend sur quelqu’un l’avantage qu’il avait pris. Action de rendre la pareille pour un mal qu'on a reçu.
  2. 2
    Action de rendre un bien qu'on a reçu.
  3. 3
    Seconde partie que joue le perdant, dans l’espoir de regagner ce qu’il a perdu. Toute reprise de jeu demandée pour se racquitter de ce qu'on a perdu, pour regagner ce qu'on a perdu auparavant.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ervanche,reavnche,revacnhe,revancche,revanceh,revanchhe,revanhce,revannche,revnache,revvanche,rrevanche,rveanche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for revanche

Misspelling Variants of "revanche"

ervanche8reavnche8revacnhe8revancche9revanceh8revanchhe9revanhce8revannche9
Misspelling Variants of "revanche"

Frequency rank: #1,834 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "revanche"?
"revanche" is spelled R-E-V-A-N-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ\.
What does "revanche" mean?
As a noun, "revanche" means: Action par laquelle on reprend sur quelqu’un l’avantage qu’il avait pris. Action de rendre la pareille pour un mal qu'on a reçu.
What words are commonly confused with "revanche"?
"revanche" is commonly confused with "relance", "relâché", "relancée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "revanche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "revanche" is \ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "revanche" come from?
"revanche" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.