revere

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The English entry for revere is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹə.viːɹ/. Corpus data places it at rank #25,909 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for revere, with forms such as "ervere", "reevre", and "reveer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "river", "rover", "revue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French révérer, ultimately from Latin revereor, from re- + vereor (“to fear”). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is revere, spelled R-E-V-E-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.