revival
\ʁə.vi.val\
The verdict
“revival” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,502. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,502
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Renaissance, résurrection, retour à la vie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-revival · revival · French
revival · rank #41,502 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,502
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rhubarbe
Nearest frequency peer: rhubarbe (+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 « revival »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- repliée
repliée
58,503 corpus weight
- restructurer
restructurer
58,501 corpus weight
- revival
revival
58,499 corpus weight
- rhubarbe
rhubarbe
58,498 corpus weight
- roadster
roadster
58,496 corpus weight
- Roberval
Roberval
58,495 corpus weight
What this shows « revival » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revival |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.vi.val\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « revival »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around revival (IPA \ʁə.vi.val\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,502 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for revival, with forms such as "ervival", "reivval", and "reviavl". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "rival", "revivre", "revivez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is revival, spelled R-E-V-I-V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Renaissance, résurrection, retour à la vie.
- 2Renouveau, regain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how revival appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] le soir où il s’était trouvé en plein revival.
En guise d’exemple, Laura Ewert avance le projet de revival de la Love Parade, annoncé par son fondateur sexagénaire Dr Motte, et, selon l’auteure qui ne précise pas davantage, serait soutenu discrètement par « par des extrémistes de droite, des hommes d’affaires ou des lobbyistes (industrie, construction immobilière, etc.) ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ervival
- reivval
- reviavl
- revivall
- revivla
- revivval
- revvial
- revvival
- rrevival
- rveival
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of revival - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).