revoir
[ʁǝ.vwaʁ]
The verdict
“revoir” is an uncommon German word, ranked #58,224 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #58,224
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - wiedersehen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revoir |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ʁǝ.vwaʁ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “revoir” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for revoir is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁǝ.vwaʁ]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,224 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "wiedersehen".
revoir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is revoir, spelled R-E-V-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1wiedersehen
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “revoir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-E-V-O-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʁǝ.vwaʁ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.