Which to use
“revel” is a noun and “révélée” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #35,693
- “revel” frequency rank
- #12,473
- “révélée” frequency rank
- 48166
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | revel | révélée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Révolte, rébellion. | Féminin singulier de révélé. |
Letter map: revel vs révélée
Shared letters muted; letters that set revel and révélée apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. revel runs 5 letters (CVCVC) against révélée's 7 (CVCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for revel / révélée
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: revel is anoun and révéléeanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48166, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
revel is recorded at frequency rank #35,693, classified as anoun. révélée is at rank #12,473, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁe.ve.le\.
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 48166, this pair ranks #181,110 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of revel vs révélée
Shared letters: elrv. Private to "revel": -. Private to "révélée": é.
"revel" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "révélée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- revel ← ervel · reevl · revell · revle · revvel · rrevel · rveel
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "revel" for "révélée" ever safe?
Which is more common, "revel" or "révélée"?
Useful next steps
Pair "revel" vs "révélée" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "revel" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "révélée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #181,110 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "revel" and "révélée" 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 #181,110 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.