revers de la médaille
\ʁə.vɛʁ də la me.daj\
The verdict
“revers de la médaille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mauvais côté caché de quelque chose de bon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-revers-de-la-medaille · revers de la médaille · French
revers de la médaille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
revers de la médaille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.vɛʁ də la me.daj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how revers de la médaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], il y en a trop qui en ont profité, qui s’en sont mis plein les poches et qui continuent à tirer sur la ficelle, à force de tirer ça casse, il y aura le revers de la médaille, un pays propre ce serait pas plus mal, […].
Certes, il m’arrive bien, revers de la médaille, De laisser quelquefois des plumes à la bataille …
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.