revue
/ɹəˈvjuː/noun
revue is a noun meaning “A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-V-U-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears 1.2 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of revue is revues.
What does revue mean?
noun
- 1
A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
- 2
Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce revue?
- /ɹəˈvjuː/
- /ɹɪˈvjuː/
Revue has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-revue.ogg, En-uk-revue.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of revue
- revues plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is revue?
Revue appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with revue
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Revue in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense form of theatrical entertainment:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does revue come from?
Borrowed from French revue (literally “review”). Doublet of review, which it replaced in these senses.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).