revêtementvsrevêtementsWhich spelling fits?

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“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.

10 ch
revêtement
11 ch
revêtements

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?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.vɛt.mɑ̃\), 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 "revêtement" or "revêtements" show up more?
"revêtement" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,745 in our French list, against #31,225 for "revêtements". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list