Which to use
“revêtement” and “revêtements” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,745
- “revêtement” frequency rank
- #31,225
- “revêtements” frequency rank
- 46970
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | revêtement | revêtements |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de revêtir. | Pluriel de revêtement. |
Same sound, different letters: revêtement vs revêtements
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. revêtement runs 10 letters (CVCVCVCVCC) against revêtements's 11 (CVCVCVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: revêtement vs revêtements
This is the hard kind. revêtement and revêtements are pronounced identically (\ʁə.vɛt.mɑ̃\) 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) - “revêtement” sits inside “revêtements”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46970, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
revêtement is recorded at frequency rank #15,745, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.vɛt.mɑ̃\. revêtements is at rank #31,225, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.vɛt.mɑ̃\.
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 46970, this pair ranks #190,616 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of revêtement vs revêtements
Shared letters: emnrtvê. Private to "revêtement": -. Private to "revêtements": s.
"revêtement" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCC · "revêtements" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCVCCC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "revêtement" and "revêtements" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "revêtement" or "revêtements" show up more?
Useful next steps
"revêtement" and "revêtements" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "revêtement" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "revêtements" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #190,616 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "revêtement" and "revêtements" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "revêtement vs revêtent". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #190,616 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.