# revenge

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɹəˈvɛnd͡ʒ/ · frequency rank #4,484

## Definitions
1. Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.
2. A win by a previous loser.

## Etymology
From Middle French revenge, a derivation from revenger, from Old French revengier (possibly influenced by Old Occitan revènge (“revenge, comeback”), from Old Occitan revenir (“to come back”)), a variant of Middle French revancher (whence deverbal French revanche), from Old French revenchier. The variants Old French vengier (whence French venger) and Old French venchier are both descended from Latin vindicō, with stress-conditioned different parallel development in the inflectional forms. Doublet of revanche. Compare avenge and vengeance.

## Easily confused with
- **revere** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/revenge-vs-revere)
- **revenue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/revenge-vs-revenue)
- **reverse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/revenge-vs-reverse)
- **reverie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/revenge-vs-reverie)
- **revenues** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/revenge-vs-revenues)

## Common misspellings (10)
`ervenge`, `reevnge`, `revegne`, `reveneg`, `revengge`, `revennge`, `revnege`, `revvenge`, `rrevenge`, `rveenge`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/revenge