révolte

\ʁe.vɔlt\

/\ʁe.vɔlt\/ noun

The verdict

“révolte” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,289
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rébellion, soulèvement contre l’autorité établie, tentative de révolution, ou bien simple changement d’allégeance.

Corpus desk

Index FR-revolte · révolte · French

révolte · rank #5,289 · 11 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,289
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH sacrée

Nearest frequency peer: sacrée (+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 « révolte »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « révolte » 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).

révolte vs révolu
71% similar
révolte vs révoqué
57% similar
révolte vs révolue
86% similar

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

Key facts for révolte
PropertyValue
Headwordrévolte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁe.vɔlt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,289
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « révolte »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).révoltese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sacrée » (#5,290), « réglementation » (#5,287), « Savoie » (#5,291). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « révolte » est au #5,289. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around révolte (IPA \ʁe.vɔlt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,289 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for révolte, with forms such as "revolte", "rrévolte", and "rvéolte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "révolu", "révoqué", "révolue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is révolte, spelled R-É-V-O-L-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rébellion, soulèvement contre l’autorité établie, tentative de révolution, ou bien simple changement d’allégeance.
  2. 2
    Refus, opposition ferme.
  3. 3
    Violente indignation, sursaut de colère, de résistance.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Et même au bled el-makhzen, où le Sultan règne en autocrate absolu, les révoltes contre son autorité ne sont pas rares.
  2. À Ismaïlia en 1938, c’est pendant une manifestation antibritannique de soutien à la révolte palestinienne qu’Hasan al-Banna a été arrêté pour la première fois.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • revolte
  • rrévolte
  • rvéolte
  • réovlte
  • révlote
  • révolet
  • révollte
  • révoltte
  • révotle
  • révvolte
  • érvolte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of révolte - 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.

revolte1rrévolte1rvéolte2réovlte2révlote2révolet2révollte1révoltte1
Edit distance from "révolte"

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 "révolte"?
"révolte" is spelled R-É-V-O-L-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.vɔlt\.
What does "révolte" mean?
As a noun, "révolte" means: Rébellion, soulèvement contre l’autorité établie, tentative de révolution, ou bien simple changement d’allégeance.
What words are commonly confused with "révolte"?
"révolte" is commonly confused with "révolu", "révoqué", "révolue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "révolte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "révolte" is \ʁe.vɔlt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "révolte" come from?
"révolte" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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 (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list