rejouévsrevoieTell them apart

Which to use

“rejoué” and “revoie” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#48,147
“rejoué” frequency rank
#46,415
“revoie” frequency rank
94562
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rejoué revoie
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de rejouer. Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de revoir.

Where the eye mixes rejoué and revoie

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. rejoué and revoie follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVVV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
rejoué
6 ch
revoie

Why the eye confuses rejoué with revoie

A purely visual mix-up. rejoué (\ʁə.ʒwe\) and revoie (\ʁə.vwa\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 94562, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rejoué is recorded at frequency rank #48,147, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ʒwe\. revoie is at rank #46,415, 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 94562, this pair ranks #1,553 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of rejoué vs revoie

Shared letters: eor. Private to "rejoué": jué. Private to "revoie": iv.

"rejoué" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVV  ·  "revoie" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • revoie ← ervoie · reovie · revioe · revoei · revvoie · rrevoie · rveoie

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "rejoué" and "revoie" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.ʒwe\ versus \ʁə.vwa\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "rejoué" or "revoie"?
"revoie" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #46,415 in our French list, against #48,147 for "rejoué". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rejoué" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revoie" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,553 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rejoué" and "revoie" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rejoué vs relous". 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 #1,553 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