réveillon
\ʁe.vɛ.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“réveillon” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,056
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Repas qui se fait en famille ou entre amis, vers le milieu de la nuit, particulièrement la nuit de Noël et la nuit précédant le jour de l’an.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reveillon · réveillon · French
réveillon · rank #18,056 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,056
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réveillez
Nearest frequency peer: réveillez (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « réveillon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rémunératio…
rémunérations
81,948 corpus weight
- républiques
républiques
81,947 corpus weight
- réveillez
réveillez
81,946 corpus weight
- réveillon
réveillon
81,945 corpus weight
- révérend
révérend
81,944 corpus weight
- saches
saches
81,943 corpus weight
What this shows « réveillon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réveillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.vɛ.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « réveillon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around réveillon (IPA \ʁe.vɛ.jɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,056 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Repas qui se fait en famille ou entre amis, vers le milieu de la nuit, particulièrement la nuit de Noël et la nuit précédant le jour de l’an.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for réveillon, with forms such as "reveillon", "rréveillon", and "rvéeillon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "réveillé", "réveilla", "réveiller", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is réveillon, spelled R-É-V-E-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Repas qui se fait en famille ou entre amis, vers le milieu de la nuit, particulièrement la nuit de Noël et la nuit précédant le jour de l’an.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how réveillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout content de ses achats, il s’arrêta encore chez un caviste où il choisit un magnum de champagne Roederer qui serait sa participation au réveillon.
On but à larges goulées le vin rude qui vous râpait la gorge et chantait aux tempes ; à grandes bâfrées, on s'empifra de viandes. Oui, jamais ne fut plus joyeux réveillon.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- reveillon
- rréveillon
- rvéeillon
- réevillon
- réveillno
- réveillonn
- réveiloln
- réveilon
- révelilon
- réviellon
- révveillon
- érveillon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of réveillon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).