revue
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,604
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
revue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de voir de nouveau. Pronounced \ʁə.vy\. It ranks #1,604 in French word frequency. Often confused with rue and rive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.vy\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for revue is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.vy\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,604 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for revue, with forms such as "ervue", "reuve", and "reveu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is revue, spelled R-E-V-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de voir de nouveau.
- 2Action d’examiner avec soin, d’inspecter exactement.
- 3Inspection de troupes que l’on fait manœuvrer et défiler.
- 4Publication périodique qui traite avec une certaine ampleur de questions variées, politiques, littéraires, scientifiques, etc.
- 5Pièce 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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ervue,reuve,reveu,revvue,rrevue,rveue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for revue
Misspelling Variants of "revue"
Frequency rank: #1,604 in French
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Nearby French words
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