revel vs révèle, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#35,693
“revel” frequency rank: #3,167
“révèle” frequency rank: 38860
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	revel	révèle
Definition	Révolte, rébellion.	Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de révéler.

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set revel and révèle apart are highlighted. They share 3 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

5 ch

revel

6 ch

révèle

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: revel is anoun and révèleaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38860, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

revel is recorded at frequency rank #35,693, classified as anoun. révèle is at rank #3,167, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁe.vɛl\.

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 38860, this pair ranks #252,297 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of revel vs révèle

Shared letters: elrv. Private to "revel": -. Private to "révèle": èé.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequency comparison

revel#35,693

révèle#3,167

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "revel" and "révèle" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "revel" is a noun and "révèle" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "revel" or "révèle"?

"révèle" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,167 in our French list, against #35,693 for "revel". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Remembering revel vs révèle

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Check the role first: if you need a noun, it's “revel”; for a verb, it's “révèle”.
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