récoltéesvsrévoltéeTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#27,225
“récoltées” frequency rank
#40,986
“révoltée” frequency rank
68211
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature récoltées révoltée
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de récolter. Femme révoltée.

Where the eye mixes récoltées and révoltée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. récoltées runs 9 letters (CVCVCCVVC) against révoltée's 8 (CVCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
récoltées
8 ch
révoltée

Visual trap between récoltées and révoltée

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: récoltées is \ʁe.kɔl.te\ while révoltée is \ʁe.vɔl.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68211, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

récoltées is recorded at frequency rank #27,225, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁe.kɔl.te\. révoltée is at rank #40,986, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁe.vɔl.te\.

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 68211, this pair ranks #60,088 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of récoltées vs révoltée

Shared letters: elorté. Private to "récoltées": cs. Private to "révoltée": v.

"récoltées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC  ·  "révoltée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "récoltées" and "révoltée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "récoltées" is a verb and "révoltée" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "récoltées" or "révoltée" show up more?
"récoltées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,225 in our French list, against #40,986 for "révoltée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "récoltées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "révoltée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #60,088 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "récoltées" and "révoltée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "récoltée vs révoltée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #60,088 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