recettevsrevêtueWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: recette is a noun, revêtue is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“recette” is a noun and “revêtue” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,496
“recette” frequency rank
#49,330
“revêtue” frequency rank
52826
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recette revêtue
Definition Ensemble des étapes nécessaire à la réalisation d’un plat en cuisine. Féminin singulier de revêtu.

Where the eye mixes recette and revêtue

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. recette (CVCVCCV) and revêtue (CVCVCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
recette
7 ch
revêtue

Why the eye confuses recette with revêtue

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: recette is \ʁə.sɛt\ while revêtue is \ʁə.vɛ.ty\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52826, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recette is recorded at frequency rank #3,496, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.sɛt\. revêtue is at rank #49,330, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.vɛ.ty\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 52826, this pair ranks #144,999 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of recette vs revêtue

Shared letters: ert. Private to "recette": c. Private to "revêtue": uvê.

"recette" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "revêtue" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recetteercette · rceette · reccette · recete · recetet · rectete · reectte · rrecette

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "recette" for "revêtue" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "recette" is a noun and "revêtue" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "recette" or "revêtue" show up more?
"recette" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,496 in our French list, against #49,330 for "revêtue". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "recette" and "revêtue" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "recette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revêtue" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #144,999 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recette" and "revêtue" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "revêtue vs revêtus". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #144,999 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list