rêvéevsrevisTell them apart

Quick tell: rêvée is a adjective, revis is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#25,490
“rêvée” frequency rank
#43,122
“revis” frequency rank
68612
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rêvée revis
Definition Féminin singulier de rêvé. Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe revivre.

Where the eye mixes rêvée and revis

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. rêvée (CVCVV) and revis (CVCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
rêvée
5 ch
revis

Why the eye confuses rêvée with revis

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: rêvée is \ʁɛ.ve\ while revis is \ʁə.vi\. 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 (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68612, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rêvée is recorded at frequency rank #25,490, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁɛ.ve\. revis is at rank #43,122, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.vi\.

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 68612, this pair ranks #58,438 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of rêvée vs revis

Shared letters: erv. Private to "rêvée": éê. Private to "revis": is.

"rêvée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "revis" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • revis ← ervis · reivs · reviss · revsi · revvis · rrevis · rveis

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rêvée" for "revis" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rêvée" is an adjective and "revis" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "rêvée" or "revis"?
"rêvée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,490 in our French list, against #43,122 for "revis". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "rêvée" and "revis" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rêvée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revis" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #58,438 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rêvée" and "revis" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "relit vs revis". 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 #58,438 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