reprendvsrévérendConfusable pair

Quick tell: reprend is a verb, révérend is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#2,895
“reprend” frequency rank
#18,057
“révérend” frequency rank
20952
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reprend révérend
Definition Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de reprendre. Digne d’être révéré.

Letter map: reprend vs révérend

Shared letters muted; letters that set reprend and révérend apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. reprend runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against révérend's 8 (CVCVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
reprend
8 ch
révérend

Role in the sentence - reprend and révérend

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: reprend is averb and révérendanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20952, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reprend is recorded at frequency rank #2,895, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.pʁɑ̃\. révérend is at rank #18,057, tagged as anadj.

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 20952, this pair ranks #365,620 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of reprend vs révérend

Shared letters: denr. Private to "reprend": p. Private to "révérend": .

"reprend" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC  ·  "révérend" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reprenderprend · repernd · repprend · repredn · reprendd · reprennd · reprned · reprrend

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "reprend" and "révérend" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "reprend" is a verb and "révérend" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "reprend" or "révérend" show up more?
"reprend" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,895 in our French list, against #18,057 for "révérend". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "reprend" vs "révérend" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "reprend" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "révérend" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #365,620 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reprend" and "révérend" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "repèrent vs révérend". 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 #365,620 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