Which to use
“relique” is a noun and “révoqué” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #24,358
- “relique” frequency rank
- #29,532
- “révoqué” frequency rank
- 53890
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | relique | révoqué |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ce qui reste d’un saint, d’un martyr, voire de Jésus-Christ lui-même, après sa mort. | Participe passé masculin singulier de révoquer. |
Where the eye mixes relique and révoqué
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. relique and révoqué follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: relique vs révoqué
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: relique is \ʁə.lik\ while révoqué is \ʁe.vɔ.ke\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53890, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
relique is recorded at frequency rank #24,358, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.lik\. révoqué is at rank #29,532, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁe.vɔ.ke\.
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 53890, this pair ranks #137,747 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of relique vs révoqué
Shared letters: qru. Private to "relique": eil. Private to "révoqué": ové.
"relique" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV · "révoqué" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- relique ← erlique · reilque · reliqeu · reliqque · reliuqe · rellique · relqiue · rleique
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "relique" and "révoqué" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "relique" or "révoqué"?
After this comparison
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "relique" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "révoqué" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #137,747 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "relique" and "révoqué" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rétorqué vs révoqué". 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 #137,747 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.