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revert

re·vert/ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)t/noun, verb

revert is spelled R-E-V-E-R-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables (re·vert). It appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, revert means “One who, or that which, reverts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of revert is reverts.

How many letters and syllables are in revert?

Letters6: R-E-V-E-R-T
Syllables2: re·vert
In writing2.2 times per million words; the 18,297th 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 revert?

Revert appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th 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 revert?

  • /ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)t/
  • /ɹiːˈvɜː(ɹ)t/
  • /ˈɹiːˌvɜːt/

Revert has 2 syllables, split re·vert in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-revert.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-revert2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of revert

  • reverts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • reverting participle, present
  • reverted participle, past

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

What does revert mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    One who, or that which, reverts.

  2. 2

    One who reverts to that religion which one had adhered to before having converted to another.

  3. 3

    A convert to Islam.

  4. 4

    The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state.

    We've found that git reverts are at least an order of magnitude faster than SVN reverse merges.

  5. 5

    The skateboard maneuver of rotating the board 180 degrees or more while the wheels remain on the ground.

verb

  1. 1

    archaicTo turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse.

  2. 2

    To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.

  3. 3

    To cause to return to a former condition.

  4. 4

    To reverse (a change).

  5. 5

    To reverse a change made by (a person).

  6. 6

    To return to the possession of.

    When a book goes out of print, rights revert from the publisher to the author.

  7. 7

    Of an estate: To return to its former owner, or to his or her heirs, when a grant comes to an end.

  8. 8

    To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner.

    Sometimes a publisher will automatically revert rights back to an author once a book has gone out of print.

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

Revert in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Portugueserevertido, revertida (Islamic usage: convert to Islam), reverter (to cause to return to a former condition)
Frenchretomber, retourner, redevenir (to turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse), renvoyer, réverbérer, refléter (to throw back; to reflect; to reverberate)
Germanrückgängig machen (to turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse)
Spanishrevertir (to turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse)

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 revert come from?

From Old French revertir, from Vulgar Latin *revertiō, variant of Latin revertō.

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

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