review

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for review is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹɪˈvjuː/. Corpus data places it at rank #794 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for review, with forms such as "erview", "reivew", and "reveiw". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "revue", "Revis", "revive", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English revewe, reveue, from Old French reveüe, revue (Modern French: revue), feminine form of reveü, past participle of reveoir (French: revoir), from Latin revideō, from re- +videō (“see, observe”) (English: video). Equivalent to re- + view. C… 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 review, spelled R-E-V-I-E-W, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.