Which to use
“revis” and “revit” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #43,122
- “revis” frequency rank
- #31,224
- “revit” frequency rank
- 74346
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | revis | revit |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe revivre. | Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de revivre. |
Same sound, different letters: revis vs revit
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. revis and revit follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Homophone desk: revis vs revit
This is the hard kind. revis and revit are pronounced identically (\ʁə.vi\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - s in “revis” becomes t in “revit”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74346, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
revis is recorded at frequency rank #43,122, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.vi\. revit is at rank #31,224, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.vi\.
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 74346, this pair ranks #37,446 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of revis vs revit
Shared letters: eirv. Private to "revis": s. Private to "revit": t.
"revis" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "revit" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "revis" and "revit" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "revis" or "revit" show up more?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "revis" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "revit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #37,446 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "revis" and "revit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "relit vs revis". 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 #37,446 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.