Which to use
“remise” is a noun and “révisé” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #2,333
- “remise” frequency rank
- #16,472
- “révisé” frequency rank
- 18805
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | remise | révisé |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de remettre en un lieu, dans un état, dans une situation... (le mot est toujours accompagné d'un complément) | Participe passé masculin singulier de réviser. |
Where the eye mixes remise and révisé
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Why the eye confuses remise with révisé
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: remise is \ʁə.miz\ while révisé is \ʁe.vi.ze\. 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 (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18805, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
remise is recorded at frequency rank #2,333, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.miz\. révisé is at rank #16,472, 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 18805, this pair ranks #376,490 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of remise vs révisé
Shared letters: irs. Private to "remise": em. Private to "révisé": vé.
"remise" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "révisé" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- remise ← ermise · reimse · remies · remisse · remmise · remsie · rmeise · rremise
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "remise" for "révisé" ever safe?
Frequency check: "remise" vs "révisé" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "remise" and "révisé" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "remise" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "révisé" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #376,490 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "remise" and "révisé" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Reis vs révisé". 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 #376,490 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.