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

#18,046
“revendiqué” frequency rank
#18,862
“revendiquent” frequency rank
36908
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature revendiqué revendiquent
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de revendiquer. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de revendiquer.

Where the eye mixes revendiqué and revendiquent

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. revendiqué runs 10 letters (CVCVCCVCVV) against revendiquent's 12 (CVCVCCVCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
revendiqué
12 ch
revendiquent

Why the eye confuses revendiqué with revendiquent

A purely visual mix-up. revendiqué (\ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke\) and revendiquent (\ʁə.vɑ̃.dik\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36908, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

revendiqué is recorded at frequency rank #18,046, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke\. revendiquent is at rank #18,862, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.vɑ̃.dik\.

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 36908, this pair ranks #266,256 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of revendiqué vs revendiquent

Shared letters: deinqruv. Private to "revendiqué": é. Private to "revendiquent": t.

"revendiqué" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVV  ·  "revendiquent" · 12 letters · shape CVCVCCVCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • revendiquent ← ervendiquent · reevndiquent · revedniquent · revenddiquent · revendiqeunt · revendiqquent · revendiquennt · revendiquentt

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "revendiqué" for "revendiquent" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke\ versus \ʁə.vɑ̃.dik\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "revendiqué" vs "revendiquent" - which ranks higher?
"revendiqué" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,046 in our French list, against #18,862 for "revendiquent". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "revendiqué" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revendiquent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #266,256 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "revendiqué" and "revendiquent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "revendiquent vs revendiqués". 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 #266,256 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