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revenue

rev·en·ue/ˈɹɛvənˌju/noun, verb

revenue is spelled R-E-V-E-N-U-E: 7 letters and 3 syllables (rev·en·ue). It appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, revenue means “The income returned by an investment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of revenue is revenues.

How many letters and syllables are in revenue?

Letters7: R-E-V-E-N-U-E
Syllables3: rev·en·ue
In writing44 times per million words; the 2,290th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is revenue?

Revenue appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th 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 revenue?

  • UK /ˈɹɛvənjuː/
  • US /ˈɹɛvənˌju/
  • US /ˈɹɛvəˌn(j)u/

Revenue has 3 syllables, split rev·en·ue in writing.

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

Forms of revenue

  • revenues plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • revenuing participle, present
  • revenued participle, past

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

What does revenue mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The income returned by an investment.

  2. 2

    The total income received from a given source.

  3. 3

    All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.

  4. 4

    The total sales; turnover.

  5. 5

    The net income from normal business operations; net sales.

  6. 6

    A return; something paid back.

    a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon What, no revenue of praise for him who is our gracious Lord and King! He doth not exact from us any servile labor, but simply saith, “Who so offereth praise glorifieth me.”

verb

  1. 1

    To generate revenue.

  2. 2

    To supply with revenue.

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

How do you abbreviate revenue?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of revenue: rev.

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

Revenue in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrevenu (income from an investment), revenus (all income for some treasury by taxation e.a), chiffre d'affaires (turnover, total sales)
GermanEinnahmen, Erlös, Einkommen (income from an investment)
Portugueseretorno, receita (income from an investment), renda (total income from a given source)
Spanishretorno (income from an investment), recaudación (all income for some treasury by taxation e.a), rédito (turnover, total sales), renta (total income from a given source)

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 revenue come from?

Recorded in English from 1433, "income from property or possessions", from Middle French revenue, from Old French [Term?] (“a return”) (modern French revenu), the prop. feminine past participle of revenir (“come back”) (=modern French), from Latin revenire (“to return, come back”), from re- (“back”) + venire (“to come”).

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

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