revelatory
[ɹɛvəˈlɛjtəɹi]
"revelatory" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“revelatory” is uncommon English (frequency #56,407 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,407
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-revelatory · revelatory · English
revelatory · rank #56,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,407
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH retinopathy
Nearest frequency peer: retinopathy (-1 rank slots)
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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “revelatory”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- repudiate
repudiate
43,598 corpus weight
- retinopathy
retinopathy
43,595 corpus weight
- revelatory
revelatory
43,594 corpus weight
- rewire
rewire
43,593 corpus weight
- RFI
RFI
43,592 corpus weight
- Rinaldo
Rinaldo
43,591 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “revelatory” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revelatory |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ɹɛvəˈlɛjtəɹi] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #56,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “revelatory” in English
Rare enough to double-check
revelatory is uncommon English at frequency #56,407 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ɹɛvəˈlɛjtəɹi]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for revelatory, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin revēlātōrius. By surface analysis, revelate + -ory. The correct English form is revelatory, spelled R-E-V-E-L-A-T-O-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation.
- 2Prophetic (especially of doom); apocalyptic.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how revelatory appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: revealing
I first sipped an El Presidente fifteen years ago, in Havana, at a sidewalk café across from a vendor selling postcards of Che Guevara. It was revelatory.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin revēlātōrius. By surface analysis, revelate + -ory.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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