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“revendeur” and “revendeurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#33,870
“revendeur” frequency rank
#29,521
“revendeurs” frequency rank
63391
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature revendeur revendeurs
Definition Celui qui revend, qui achète pour revendre. Pluriel de revendeur.

Same sound, different letters: revendeur vs revendeurs

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. revendeur runs 9 letters (CVCVCCVVC) against revendeurs's 10 (CVCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
revendeur
10 ch
revendeurs

Same sound, different spelling - revendeur / revendeurs

This is the hard kind. revendeur and revendeurs are pronounced identically (\ʁə.vɑ̃.dœʁ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “revendeur” sits inside “revendeurs”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63391, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

revendeur is recorded at frequency rank #33,870, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.vɑ̃.dœʁ\. revendeurs is at rank #29,521, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.vɑ̃.dœʁ\.

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 63391, this pair ranks #82,191 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of revendeur vs revendeurs

Shared letters: denruv. Private to "revendeur": -. Private to "revendeurs": s.

"revendeur" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC  ·  "revendeurs" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • revendeur ← ervendeur · reevndeur · revedneur · revenddeur · revenderu · revendeurr · revenduer · revenedur
  • revendeurs ← ervendeurs · reevndeurs · revedneurs · revenddeurs · revenderus · revendeurrs · revendeurss · revendeusr

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "revendeur" and "revendeurs" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.vɑ̃.dœʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "revendeur" or "revendeurs" show up more?
"revendeurs" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,521 in our French list, against #33,870 for "revendeur". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "revendeur" / "revendeurs". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "revendeur" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revendeurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #82,191 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "revendeur" and "revendeurs" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "revendent vs revendeur". 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 #82,191 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