revuevsroqueTell them apart

Which to use

“revue” and “roque” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#1,604
“revue” frequency rank
#30,785
“roque” frequency rank
32389
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature revue roque
Definition Action de voir de nouveau. Mouvement du jeu d’échecs où le roi et une tour bougent en un seul coup : le roi va de 2 cases vers la tour et la tour saute le roi et se met sur la case juste à côté. Pour faire ce coup, il faut :

Where the eye mixes revue and roque

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
revue
5 ch
roque

Look-alike desk: revue vs roque

A purely visual mix-up. revue (\ʁə.vy\) and roque (\ʁɔk\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32389, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

revue is recorded at frequency rank #1,604, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.vy\. roque is at rank #30,785, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁɔk\.

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 32389, this pair ranks #297,612 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of revue vs roque

Shared letters: eru. Private to "revue": v. Private to "roque": oq.

"revue" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV  ·  "roque" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • revueervue · reuve · reveu · revvue · rrevue · rveue
  • roqueroqeu · roqque · rouqe · rqoue · rroque

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "revue" and "roque" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.vy\ versus \ʁɔk\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "revue" or "roque"?
"revue" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,604 in our French list, against #30,785 for "roque". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "revue" and "roque" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "revue" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "roque" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #297,612 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "revue" and "roque" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "roque vs roques". 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 #297,612 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