révélésvsrevenezWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#20,562
“révélés” frequency rank
#17,550
“revenez” frequency rank
38112
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature révélés revenez
Definition Masculin pluriel de révélé. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de revenir.

Where the eye mixes révélés and revenez

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. révélés and revenez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
révélés
7 ch
revenez

Look-alike desk: révélés vs revenez

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: révélés is \ʁe.ve.le\ while revenez is \ʁə.və.ne\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 5 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 38112, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

révélés is recorded at frequency rank #20,562, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁe.ve.le\. revenez is at rank #17,550, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.və.ne\.

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 38112, this pair ranks #257,588 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of révélés vs revenez

Shared letters: rv. Private to "révélés": lsé. Private to "revenez": enz.

"révélés" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC  ·  "revenez" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • revenez ← ervenez · reevnez · reveenz · revenezz · revennez · revenze · revneez · revvenez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "révélés" and "revenez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "révélés" is an adjective and "revenez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "révélés" or "revenez" show up more?
"revenez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,550 in our French list, against #20,562 for "révélés". 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 "révélés" and "revenez" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "révélés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revenez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #257,588 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "révélés" and "revenez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "révélés vs révolus". 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 #257,588 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