relisezvsrévisésTell them apart

Which to use

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

#42,576
“relisez” frequency rank
#46,430
“révisés” frequency rank
89006
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature relisez révisés
Definition Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de relire. Participe passé masculin pluriel de réviser.

Where the eye mixes relisez and révisés

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

7 ch
relisez
7 ch
révisés

Look-alike desk: relisez vs révisés

A purely visual mix-up. relisez (\ʁə.li.ze\) and révisés (\ʁe.vi.ze\) 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 4 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 89006, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

relisez is recorded at frequency rank #42,576, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.li.ze\. révisés is at rank #46,430, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁe.vi.ze\.

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 89006, this pair ranks #6,284 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of relisez vs révisés

Shared letters: irs. Private to "relisez": elz. Private to "révisés": vé.

"relisez" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "révisés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • relisez ← erlisez · reilsez · reliesz · relisezz · relissez · relisze · rellisez · relsiez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "relisez" for "révisés" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.li.ze\ versus \ʁe.vi.ze\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "relisez" vs "révisés" - which ranks higher?
"relisez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #42,576 in our French list, against #46,430 for "révisés". 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 "relisez" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "révisés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #6,284 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "relisez" and "révisés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "revis vs révisés". 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 #6,284 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