revue

\ʁə.vy\

/\ʁə.vy\/ noun

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The verdict

“revue” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,604. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,604
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de voir de nouveau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-revue · revue · French

revue · rank #1,604 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,604
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH opérations

Nearest frequency peer: opérations (-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 « revue »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « revue » 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).

revue vs rue
60% similar
revue vs rive
60% similar
revue vs roué
40% similar

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

Key facts for revue
PropertyValue
Headwordrevue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.vy\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,604
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « revue »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « opérations » (#1,603), « rose » (#1,605), « naturel » (#1,602). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « revue » est au #1,604. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around revue (IPA \ʁə.vy\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,604 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for revue, with forms such as "ervue", "reuve", and "reveu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "rive", "roué", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is revue, spelled R-E-V-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de voir de nouveau.
  2. 2
    Action d’examiner avec soin, d’inspecter exactement.
  3. 3
    Inspection de troupes que l’on fait manœuvrer et défiler.
  4. 4
    Publication périodique qui traite avec une certaine ampleur de questions variées, politiques, littéraires, scientifiques, etc.
  5. 5
    Pièce satirique dont l’action est faite de scènes à peine reliées entre elles et où l’on chansonne des personnages et des événements qui ont récemment occupé l’attention publique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Nous sommes gens de revue, nous sommes de revue, nous sommes de la revue, nous avons l’occasion de nous revoir.
  2. J’ai fait la revue de mes livres.

This word in other languages

magazine(English)revista(Español)Revue(Deutsch)revista(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ervue
  • reuve
  • reveu
  • revvue
  • rrevue
  • rveue

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ervue2reuve2reveu2revvue1rrevue1rveue2
Edit distance from "revue"

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 "revue"?
"revue" is spelled R-E-V-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.vy\.
What does "revue" mean?
As a noun, "revue" means: Action de voir de nouveau.
What words are commonly confused with "revue"?
"revue" is commonly confused with "rue", "rive", "roué". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "revue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "revue" is \ʁə.vy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "revue" come from?
"revue" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

salon#1,607liens#1,598sympa#1,610venez#1,613

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

gagne6 variantsmecs6 variantssent6 variantsreine6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list