revers de la médaille
\ʁə.vɛʁ də la me.daj\
The verdict
“revers de la médaille” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mauvais côté caché de quelque chose de bon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revers de la médaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.vɛʁ də la me.daj\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “revers de la médaille” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for revers de la médaille is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.vɛʁ də la me.daj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mauvais côté caché de quelque chose de bon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for revers de la médaille, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is revers de la médaille, spelled R-E-V-E-R-S- -D-E- -L-A- -M-É-D-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Mauvais côté caché de quelque chose de bon.
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Using “revers de la médaille”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-V-E-R-S- -D-E- -L-A- -M-É-D-A-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.vɛʁ də la me.daj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.