résultévsrévolteConfusable pair

Quick tell: résulté is a verb, révolte is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“résulté” is a verb and “révolte” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#35,710
“résulté” frequency rank
#5,289
“révolte” frequency rank
40999
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature résulté révolte
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de résulter. Rébellion, soulèvement contre l’autorité établie, tentative de révolution, ou bien simple changement d’allégeance.

Where the eye mixes résulté and révolte

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. résulté and révolte follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
résulté
7 ch
révolte

Why the eye confuses résulté with révolte

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: résulté is \ʁe.zyl.te\ while révolte is \ʁe.vɔlt\. 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 (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40999, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

résulté is recorded at frequency rank #35,710, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁe.zyl.te\. révolte is at rank #5,289, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁe.vɔlt\.

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 40999, this pair ranks #236,339 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of résulté vs révolte

Shared letters: lrté. Private to "résulté": su. Private to "révolte": eov.

"résulté" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "révolte" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "résulté" and "révolte" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "résulté" is a verb and "révolte" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "résulté" or "révolte" show up more?
"révolte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,289 in our French list, against #35,710 for "résulté". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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  • Full dictionary entry for "résulté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "révolte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #236,339 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "résulté" and "révolte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "régulée vs résulté". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #236,339 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