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revoking

noun, verb

revoking is a noun meaning “A revocation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-V-O-K-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of revoking is revokings.

What does revoking mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A revocation.

    […] after grantings, revokings, and re-grantings, of the liberty of Yarmouth […]

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of revoke (a form of revoke)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce revoking?

    Revoking has 3 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).

    Forms of revoking

    • revokings plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is revoking?

    Revoking appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,267th 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).