relevésvsrelevezTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#9,375
“relevés” frequency rank
#45,276
“relevez” frequency rank
54651
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature relevés relevez
Definition Masculin pluriel de relevé. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de relever.

Same sound, different letters: relevés vs relevez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. relevés and relevez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
relevés
7 ch
relevez

Homophone desk: relevés vs relevez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: relevés and relevez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ʁə.lə.ve\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54651, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

relevés is recorded at frequency rank #9,375, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.lə.ve\. relevez is at rank #45,276, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.lə.ve\.

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 54651, this pair ranks #132,599 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of relevés vs relevez

Shared letters: elrv. Private to "relevés": sé. Private to "relevez": z.

"relevés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "relevez" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • relevez ← erlevez · reelvez · releevz · relevezz · relevvez · relevze · rellevez · relveez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "relevés" for "relevez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "relevés" is an adjective and "relevez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "relevés" or "relevez" show up more?
"relevés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,375 in our French list, against #45,276 for "relevez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "relevés" / "relevez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "relevés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "relevez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #132,599 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "relevés" and "relevez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "releveur vs relevez". 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 #132,599 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