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reveal

re·veal/ɹɪˈvil/noun, verb

reveal is spelled R-E-V-E-A-L: 6 letters and 2 syllables (re·veal). It appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, reveal means “The outer side of a window or door frame” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of reveal is reveals.

How many letters and syllables are in reveal?

Letters6: R-E-V-E-A-L
Syllables2: re·veal
In writing27 times per million words; the 3,422nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is reveal?

Reveal appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd 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).

How do you pronounce reveal?

  • UK /ɹɪˈviːl/
  • US /ɹɪˈvil/
  • Australia /ɹɪˈviːl/

Reveal has 2 syllables, split re·veal in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-reveal.ogg, En-au-reveal.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with reveal

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

reveal vs revel0 B

Also written: revel.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with reveal?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as reveal from its last stressed vowel (/il/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: leaver.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of reveal

  • reveals plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • revealing participle, present
  • revealed participle, past

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

What does reveal mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The outer side of a window or door frame.

  2. 2

    informalA revelation; an uncovering of what was hidden in the scene or story.

    The comedian had been telling us about his sleep being disturbed by noise. Then came the reveal: he was sleeping on a bed in a department store.

verb

  1. 1

    To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden or unknown.

  2. 2

    To communicate that which could not be known or discovered without divine or supernatural instruction.

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

Reveal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrévéler (to uncover), laisser voir (to communicate that which could not be known or…)
Germanenthüllen (to uncover), offenbaren (to communicate that which could not be known or…)
Portugueserevelar (to uncover), divulgar (to communicate that which could not be known or…)
Spanishrevelar, propalar (to uncover)

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 reveal come from?

From Middle English revēlen, from Old French reveler, from Latin revēlāre (“to reveal, uncover”), from re- (“back, again”) + vēlāre (“to cover”), from vēlum (“a cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning, sail”) (whence also English veil, English unveil, English voile, Russian вуаль (vualʹ), Russian завуали́ровать (zavualírovatʹ, “to veil”) (compare typologically)). Also compare typologically English uncloak, dismantle, divest, invest, unmask, Russian разобла́чать (razobláčatʹ) (akin to облаче́ние (oblačénije), срыва́ть покро́вы (sryvátʹ pokróvy) (покро́в (pokróv, “cover, covering”)).

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

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