repvsreviTell them apart

Quick tell: rep is a noun, revi is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“rep” is a noun and “revi” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#28,006
“rep” frequency rank
#42,196
“revi” frequency rank
70202
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rep revi
Definition gênero musical caracterizado por improvisação rimada, com ritmo sincopado e monólogo ou diálogo sonhar (acordado), devanear, fantasiar

Letter map: rep vs revi

Shared letters muted; letters that set rep and revi apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch
rep
4 ch
revi

Part-of-speech tell for rep / revi

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: rep is anoun and reviaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70202, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rep is recorded at frequency rank #28,006, classified as anoun. revi is at rank #42,196, tagged as averb, pronounced /ˈrɛ.vi/.

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 70202, this pair ranks #3,708 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of rep vs revi

Shared letters: er. Private to "rep": p. Private to "revi": iv.

"rep" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "revi" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reviervi · reiv · revvi · rrevi · rvei

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rep" for "revi" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rep" is a noun and "revi" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "rep" or "revi"?
"rep" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,006 in our Portuguese list, against #42,196 for "revi". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "rep" and "revi". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rep" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "revi" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #3,708 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rep" and "revi" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rabi vs revi". 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 #3,708 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list