revers
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,652
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
revers is aFrenchnoun. It means: Côté d’une chose opposé au côté principal, à celui que l’on regarde ou qui se présente d’abord. Pronounced \ʁə.vɛʁ\. It ranks #6,652 in French word frequency. Often confused with river and revêt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for revers is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.vɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,652 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for revers, with forms such as "ervers", "reevrs", and "reverrs". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "river", "revêt", "rover", 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 revers, spelled R-E-V-E-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Côté d’une chose opposé au côté principal, à celui que l’on regarde ou qui se présente d’abord.
- 2Coup donné avec le dos de la main, ou avec une arme ou un instrument quelconque, de la gauche vers la droite dans le cas d’un droitier, de droite à gauche dans celui d’un gaucher.
- 3Disgrâce ; échec ; accident qui change une bonne situation en une mauvaise.
- 4Partie d’un vêtement qui est ou semble repliée en dessus, de manière à montrer une partie de l’envers ou de la doublure du vêtement.
- 5Haut de la tige d’une botte, lorsqu’il paraît se rabattre et montrer le côté du cuir qui n’est pas noirci.
- 6Côté opposé à la face ou avers, portant une inscription, un sujet, etc., en parlant de monnaies ou de médailles
- 7Nom donné au côté d’un drapeau opposé à l’avers quand celui-ci est différent.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ervers,reevrs,reverrs,reverss,revesr,revres,revvers,rrevers,rveers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for revers
Misspelling Variants of "revers"
Frequency rank: #6,652 in French
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