revêtir

\ʁə.ve.tiʁ\

/\ʁə.ve.tiʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“revêtir” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,854. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#26,854
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pourvoir de vêtements quelqu’un qui en a besoin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-revetir · revêtir · French

revêtir · rank #26,854 · 11 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,854
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH revoilà

Nearest frequency peer: revoilà (-1 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 « revêtir »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « revêtir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

revêtir vs revoir
71% similar
revêtir vs rêveur
43% similar
revêtir vs revêtu
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for revêtir
PropertyValue
Headwordrevêtir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁə.ve.tiʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#26,854
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « revêtir »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.revêtirse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « revoilà » (#26,853), « retrouverait » (#26,852), « Riyad » (#26,856). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « revêtir » est au #26,854. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around revêtir (IPA \ʁə.ve.tiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,854 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for revêtir, with forms such as "ervêtir", "revetir", and "revtêir". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "revoir", "rêveur", "revêtu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is revêtir, spelled R-E-V-Ê-T-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pourvoir de vêtements quelqu’un qui en a besoin.
  2. 2
    Couvrir d’un vêtement, spécialement en parlant des habits de cérémonie ou des autres marques de dignité.
  3. 3
    Recevoir des emplois, des titres, des dignités, du pouvoir, de l’autorité, dont ainsi on est investi.
  4. 4
    Donner une apparence parfois trompeuse.
  5. 5
    Mettre sur soi, spécialement en parlant des habits de cérémonie et des autres marques de dignité.
  6. 6
    Prendre, se donner ou s’attribuer telle ou telle apparence ou telle ou telle qualité.
  7. 7
    Faire un revêtement.
  8. 8
    Recouvrir, enduire.
  9. 9
    Se rhabiller.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how revêtir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Revêtir les pauvres.
  2. Les chevaliers du Saint Esprit étaient revêtus du grand collier de l’ordre.

This word in other languages

accept(English)revestir(Español)beschichten(Deutsch)aceitar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ervêtir
  • revetir
  • revtêir
  • revvêtir
  • revêitr
  • revêtirr
  • revêtri
  • revêttir
  • reêvtir
  • rrevêtir
  • rveêtir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of revêtir - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ervêtir2revetir1revtêir2revvêtir1revêitr2revêtirr1revêtri2revêttir1
Edit distance from "revêtir"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "revêtir"?
"revêtir" is spelled R-E-V-Ê-T-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.ve.tiʁ\.
What does "revêtir" mean?
As a verb, "revêtir" means: Pourvoir de vêtements quelqu’un qui en a besoin.
What words are commonly confused with "revêtir"?
"revêtir" is commonly confused with "revoir", "rêveur", "revêtu". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "revêtir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "revêtir" is \ʁə.ve.tiʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "revêtir" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "revêtir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

revoilà#26,853renards#26,849reliure#26,848relayée#26,847

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

salariée11 variantsSarajevo11 variantssingles11 variantssoulevée11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list