revêche
\ʁə.vɛʃ\
The verdict
“revêche” is uncommon French (frequency #76,979 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,979
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est rude, âpre au goût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reveche · revêche · French
revêche · rank #76,979 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,979
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Reuilly
Nearest frequency peer: Reuilly (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « revêche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- required
required
23,025 corpus weight
- ressortez
ressortez
23,024 corpus weight
- Reuilly
Reuilly
23,023 corpus weight
- revêche
revêche
23,022 corpus weight
- rhinite
rhinite
23,021 corpus weight
- rhumatologie
rhumatologie
23,020 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « revêche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revêche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.vɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « revêche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
revêche is uncommon French at frequency #76,979 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.vɛʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for revêche in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is revêche, spelled R-E-V-Ê-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est rude, âpre au goût.
- 2Qualifie un diamant auquel on ne peut pas faire prendre le poli dans toutes ses parties.
- 3D’un abord difficile, rude, peu traitable, rébarbatif, en parlant d’une personne.
- 4D’un abord rude et peu engageant, en parlant d’une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how revêche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces poires sont revêches. – Du vin revêche.
Vous êtes bien revêche ce soir. Je vous obéis, madame la marquise.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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