relevéesvsrepéréesConfusable pair

Quick tell: relevées is a adjective, repérées is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“relevées” is an adjective and “repérées” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#22,396
“relevées” frequency rank
#43,637
“repérées” frequency rank
66033
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature relevées repérées
Definition Féminin pluriel de relevé. Participe passé féminin pluriel de repérer.

Where the eye mixes relevées and repérées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. relevées and repérées follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
relevées
8 ch
repérées

Why the eye confuses relevées with repérées

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: relevées is \ʁə.lə.ve\ while repérées is \ʁə.pe.ʁe\. 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 (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66033, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

relevées is recorded at frequency rank #22,396, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.lə.ve\. repérées is at rank #43,637, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.pe.ʁe\.

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 66033, this pair ranks #69,624 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of relevées vs repérées

Shared letters: ersé. Private to "relevées": lv. Private to "repérées": p.

"relevées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC  ·  "repérées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "relevées" for "repérées" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "relevées" is an adjective and "repérées" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "relevées" or "repérées" show up more?
"relevées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,396 in our French list, against #43,637 for "repérées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "relevées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "repérées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #69,624 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "relevées" and "repérées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "repérées vs repèrent". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #69,624 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