revers

/\ʁə.vɛʁ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for revers
PropertyValue
Headwordrevers
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.vɛʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,652
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Côté d’une chose opposé au côté principal, à celui que l’on regarde ou qui se présente d’abord.
  2. 2
    Coup 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.
  3. 3
    Disgrâce ; échec ; accident qui change une bonne situation en une mauvaise.
  4. 4
    Partie 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.
  5. 5
    Haut de la tige d’une botte, lorsqu’il paraît se rabattre et montrer le côté du cuir qui n’est pas noirci.
  6. 6
    Côté opposé à la face ou avers, portant une inscription, un sujet, etc., en parlant de monnaies ou de médailles
  7. 7
    Nom 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"

ervers6reevrs6reverrs7reverss7revesr6revres6revvers7rrevers7
Misspelling Variants of "revers"

Frequency rank: #6,652 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "revers"?
"revers" is spelled R-E-V-E-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.vɛʁ\.
What does "revers" mean?
As a noun, "revers" means: Côté d’une chose opposé au côté principal, à celui que l’on regarde ou qui se présente d’abord.
What words are commonly confused with "revers"?
"revers" is commonly confused with "river", "revêt", "rover". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "revers"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "revers" is \ʁə.vɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "revers" come from?
"revers" 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.