revelvsrévélaWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#35,693
“revel” frequency rank
#28,341
“révéla” frequency rank
64034
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature revel révéla
Definition Révolte, rébellion. Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de révéler.

Letter map: revel vs révéla

Shared letters muted; letters that set revel and révéla apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. revel runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against révéla's 6 (CVCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
revel
6 ch
révéla

Role in the sentence - revel and révéla

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: revel is anoun and révélaaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64034, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

revel is recorded at frequency rank #35,693, classified as anoun. révéla is at rank #28,341, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁe.ve.la\.

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 64034, this pair ranks #79,011 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of revel vs révéla

Shared letters: lrv. Private to "revel": e. Private to "révéla": aé.

"revel" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "révéla" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • revel ← ervel · reevl · revell · revle · revvel · rrevel · rveel

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "revel" and "révéla" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "revel" is a noun and "révéla" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "revel" vs "révéla" - which ranks higher?
"révéla" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,341 in our French list, against #35,693 for "revel". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "revel" and "révéla".

  • Full dictionary entry for "revel" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "révéla" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #79,011 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "revel" and "révéla" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rénal vs revel". 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 #79,011 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