revenait
\ʁə.və.nɛ\
The verdict
“revenait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,573. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,573
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de revenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-revenait · revenait · French
revenait · rank #10,573 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,573
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renvoi
Nearest frequency peer: renvoi (-2 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 « revenait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- remontent
remontent
89,432 corpus weight
- remplacés
remplacés
89,431 corpus weight
- renvoi
renvoi
89,430 corpus weight
- revenait
revenait
89,428 corpus weight
- répondez
répondez
89,426 corpus weight
- sembler
sembler
89,424 corpus weight
What this shows « revenait » 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 | revenait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.və.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « revenait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around revenait (IPA \ʁə.və.nɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,573 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de revenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for revenait, with forms such as "ervenait", "reevnait", and "reveanit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rêvent", "revenir", "revenant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is revenait, spelled R-E-V-E-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de revenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how revenait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, si Pline revenait en ce monde, il verrait la chirurgie maîtresse de ces trois maux, tailler ou lithotritier les calculeux, réséquer ou gastro-entérostomiser les ulcères de l’estomac et attaquer, en plein crâne, la névralgie trifaciale.
Si certains se targuèrent alors de rendre la chose plus « transparente » donc soi-disant plus saine, cela revenait tout de même à leur permettre de faire du renseignement législatif voire d’influencer nos élus.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ervenait
- reevnait
- reveanit
- revenaitt
- revenati
- reveniat
- revennait
- revneait
- revvenait
- rrevenait
- rveenait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of revenait - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).