Which to use
“requises” is an adjective and “révisés” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #14,133
- “requises” frequency rank
- #46,430
- “révisés” frequency rank
- 60563
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | requises | révisés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de requis. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de réviser. |
Where the eye mixes requises and révisés
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: requises vs révisés
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: requises is \ʁə.kiz\ while révisés is \ʁe.vi.ze\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60563, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
requises is recorded at frequency rank #14,133, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.kiz\. 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 60563, this pair ranks #96,963 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of requises vs révisés
Shared letters: irs. Private to "requises": equ. Private to "révisés": vé.
"requises" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCVC · "révisés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- requises ← erquises · reqiuses · reqquises · requiess · requisess · requisses · requsies · reuqises
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "requises" for "révisés" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "requises" or "révisés" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "requises" and "révisés" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "requises" 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 #96,963 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "requises" 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 #96,963 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.