Which to use
“reçois” is a verb and “revois” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #6,232
- “reçois” frequency rank
- #15,024
- “revois” frequency rank
- 21256
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | reçois | revois |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de recevoir. | Relatif à Autigny-la-Tour, commune française située dans le département des Vosges. |
Where the spellings diverge
Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set reçois and revois apart are highlighted. They share 5 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: reçois is \ʁə.swa\ while revois is \ʁə.vwa\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - ç in “reçois” becomes v in “revois”, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21256, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
reçois is recorded at frequency rank #6,232, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.swa\. revois is at rank #15,024, tagged as anadj, 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 21256, this pair ranks #364,111 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of reçois vs revois
Shared letters: eiors. Private to "reçois": ç. Private to "revois": v.
"reçois" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC · "revois" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- revois ← ervois · reovis · revios · revoiss · revosi · revvois · rrevois · rveois