recoinvsrevoitWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: recoin is a noun, revoit is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“recoin” is a noun and “revoit” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#39,007
“recoin” frequency rank
#15,234
“revoit” frequency rank
54241
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recoin revoit
Definition Coin plus caché, moins en vue. Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de revoir.

Where the eye mixes recoin and revoit

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. recoin and revoit follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
recoin
6 ch
revoit

Look-alike desk: recoin vs revoit

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: recoin is \ʁə.kwɛ̃\ while revoit is \ʁə.vwa\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54241, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recoin is recorded at frequency rank #39,007, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.kwɛ̃\. revoit is at rank #15,234, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.vwa\.

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 54241, this pair ranks #135,320 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of recoin vs revoit

Shared letters: eior. Private to "recoin": cn. Private to "revoit": tv.

"recoin" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC  ·  "revoit" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recoinercoin · rceoin · reccoin · recion · recoinn · reconi · reocin · rrecoin
  • revoitervoit · reovit · reviot · revoitt · revoti · revvoit · rrevoit · rveoit

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "recoin" and "revoit" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "recoin" is a noun and "revoit" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "recoin" or "revoit"?
"revoit" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,234 in our French list, against #39,007 for "recoin". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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  • Full dictionary entry for "recoin" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revoit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #135,320 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recoin" and "revoit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recoin vs revoie". 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 #135,320 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