revoievsrevoisConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#46,415
“revoie” frequency rank
#15,024
“revois” frequency rank
61439
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature revoie revois
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de revoir. Relatif à Autigny-la-Tour, commune française située dans le département des Vosges.

Same sound, different letters: revoie vs revois

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. revoie (CVCVVV) and revois (CVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
revoie
6 ch
revois

Same sound, different spelling - revoie / revois

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: revoie and revois carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ʁə.vwa\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by a single letter - e in “revoie” becomes s in “revois”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61439, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

revoie is recorded at frequency rank #46,415, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.vwa\. 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 61439, this pair ranks #92,287 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of revoie vs revois

Shared letters: eiorv. Private to "revoie": -. Private to "revois": s.

"revoie" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVV  ·  "revois" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • revoie ← ervoie · reovie · revioe · revoei · revvoie · rrevoie · rveoie
  • revois ← ervois · reovis · revios · revoiss · revosi · revvois · rrevois · rveois

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "revoie" and "revois" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "revoie" is a verb and "revois" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "revoie" 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 #46,415 for "revoie". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"revoie" and "revois" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "revoie" 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 #92,287 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "revoie" and "revois" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rejoué vs revoie". 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 #92,287 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