revelvsrivésWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#35,693
“revel” frequency rank
#31,229
“rivés” frequency rank
66922
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature revel rivés
Definition Révolte, rébellion. Participe passé masculin pluriel de river.

Letter map: revel vs rivés

Shared letters muted; letters that set revel and rivés apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

5 ch
revel
5 ch
rivés

Role in the sentence - revel and rivés

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: revel is anoun and rivésaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66922, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

revel is recorded at frequency rank #35,693, classified as anoun. rivés is at rank #31,229, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁi.ve\.

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 66922, this pair ranks #65,695 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of revel vs rivés

Shared letters: rv. Private to "revel": el. Private to "rivés": isé.

"revel" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "rivés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • revelervel · reevl · revell · revle · revvel · rrevel · rveel

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "revel" for "rivés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "revel" is a noun and "rivés" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "revel" vs "rivés" - which ranks higher?
"rivés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,229 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.

Useful next steps

Pair "revel" vs "rivés" 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 "rivés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #65,695 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "revel" and "rivés" 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 #65,695 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