révoltéevsrévoltésTell them apart

Quick tell: révoltée is a noun, révoltés is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“révoltée” is a noun and “révoltés” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,986
“révoltée” frequency rank
#24,763
“révoltés” frequency rank
65749
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature révoltée révoltés
Definition Femme révoltée. Masculin pluriel de révolté.

Same sound, different letters: révoltée vs révoltés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. révoltée (CVCVCCVV) and révoltés (CVCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
révoltée
8 ch
révoltés

Homophone desk: révoltée vs révoltés

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: révoltée and révoltés carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ʁe.vɔl.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by a single letter - e in “révoltée” becomes s in “révoltés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65749, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

révoltée is recorded at frequency rank #40,986, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁe.vɔl.te\. révoltés is at rank #24,763, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁe.vɔl.te\.

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 65749, this pair ranks #70,948 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of révoltée vs révoltés

Shared letters: lortvé. Private to "révoltée": e. Private to "révoltés": s.

"révoltée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV  ·  "révoltés" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "révoltée" for "révoltés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "révoltée" is a noun and "révoltés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "révoltée" vs "révoltés" - which ranks higher?
"révoltés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,763 in our French list, against #40,986 for "révoltée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "révoltée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "révoltés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #70,948 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "révoltée" and "révoltés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "récoltée vs révoltée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #70,948 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