révisévsrevoisTell them apart

Quick tell: révisé is a verb, revois is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#16,472
“révisé” frequency rank
#15,024
“revois” frequency rank
31496
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature révisé revois
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de réviser. Relatif à Autigny-la-Tour, commune française située dans le département des Vosges.

Where the eye mixes révisé and revois

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

6 ch
révisé
6 ch
revois

Why the eye confuses révisé with revois

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: révisé is \ʁe.vi.ze\ while revois is \ʁə.vwa\. 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 (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31496, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

révisé is recorded at frequency rank #16,472, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁe.vi.ze\. revois is at rank #15,024, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.vwa\.

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 31496, this pair ranks #303,441 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of révisé vs revois

Shared letters: irsv. Private to "révisé": é. Private to "revois": eo.

"révisé" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "revois" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • revoiservois · reovis · revios · revoiss · revosi · revvois · rrevois · rveois

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "révisé" and "revois" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "révisé" is a verb and "revois" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "révisé" or "revois" show up more?
"revois" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,024 in our French list, against #16,472 for "révisé". 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 "révisé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revois" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #303,441 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "révisé" and "revois" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Reis vs révisé". 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 #303,441 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