revendicationvsrevendicationsConfusable pair

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

#11,292
“revendication” frequency rank
#6,885
“revendications” frequency rank
18177
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature revendication revendications
Definition Action de revendiquer. Pluriel de revendication.

Same sound, different letters: revendication vs revendications

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 13 letters. revendication runs 13 letters (CVCVCCVCVCVVC) against revendications's 14 (CVCVCCVCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

13 ch
revendication
14 ch
revendications

Same sound, different spelling - revendication / revendications

This is the hard kind. revendication and revendications are pronounced identically (\ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃\) 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) - “revendication” sits inside “revendications”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18177, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

revendication is recorded at frequency rank #11,292, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃\. revendications is at rank #6,885, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃\.

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 18177, this pair ranks #379,617 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of revendication vs revendications

Shared letters: acdeinortv. Private to "revendication": -. Private to "revendications": s.

"revendication" · 13 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVCVVC  ·  "revendications" · 14 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • revendication ← ervendication · reevndication · revednication · revendciation · revenddication · revendiaction · revendicaiton · revendicatino
  • revendications ← ervendications · reevndications · revednications · revendciations · revenddications · revendiactions · revendicaitons · revendicatinos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "revendication" and "revendications" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "revendication" vs "revendications" - which ranks higher?
"revendications" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,885 in our French list, against #11,292 for "revendication". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "revendication" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revendications" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #379,617 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • 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 #379,617 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