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.
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
- revois ← ervois · reovis · revios · revoiss · revosi · revvois · rrevois · rveois
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "révisé" and "revois" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "révisé" or "revois" show up more?
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.