revêtuevsrévoquéConfusable pair

Quick tell: revêtue is a adjective, révoqué is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“revêtue” is an adjective and “révoqué” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#49,330
“revêtue” frequency rank
#29,532
“révoqué” frequency rank
78862
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature revêtue révoqué
Definition Féminin singulier de revêtu. Participe passé masculin singulier de révoquer.

Where the eye mixes revêtue and révoqué

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. revêtue and révoqué follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCVV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
revêtue
7 ch
révoqué

Look-alike desk: revêtue vs révoqué

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: revêtue is \ʁə.vɛ.ty\ while révoqué is \ʁe.vɔ.ke\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 78862, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

revêtue is recorded at frequency rank #49,330, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.vɛ.ty\. révoqué is at rank #29,532, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁe.vɔ.ke\.

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 78862, this pair ranks #24,696 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of revêtue vs révoqué

Shared letters: ruv. Private to "revêtue": etê. Private to "révoqué": oqé.

"revêtue" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "révoqué" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "revêtue" and "révoqué" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "revêtue" is an adjective and "révoqué" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "revêtue" or "révoqué"?
"révoqué" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,532 in our French list, against #49,330 for "revêtue". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "revêtue" and "révoqué" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "revêtue" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "révoqué" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #24,696 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "revêtue" and "révoqué" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "revêtue vs revêtus". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #24,696 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