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review

/ɹɪˈvjuː/noun, verb

review is spelled R-E-V-I-E-W. The wrong spelling people search most is reveiw: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 87 of all searches for the word. Review is a noun meaning “A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights”. The plural of review is reviews.

How many letters and syllables are in review?

Letters6: R-E-V-I-E-W
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing132 times per million words; the 792nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, reveiw, about 210 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Pairs people search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell review?

Review is spelled R-E-V-I-E-W. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 87 of the searches for review in either form.

reviewthe right spelling18,040 searches a month
reveiwi and e swapped210 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is review?

Review appears 132 times per million words in written English, the 792nd 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 review?

  • /ɹɪˈvjuː/
  • /ˈrɪʋ.ju/

Review has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

Words people confuse with review

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

review vs revue40 G

Also written: re-view (one word or two).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with review?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as review.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: viewer.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of review

  • reviews plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • reviewing participle, present
  • reviewed participle, past

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

What does review mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.

    I need to make a review of the book before I can understand it.

  2. 2

    An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.

    The newspaper review was full of praise for the play.

  3. 3

    A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.

    The victims demanded a full judicial review of the case.

  4. 4

    A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.

    The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces.

  5. 5

    A survey of the available items or material.

    The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.

  6. 6

    A review article.

  7. 7

    A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.

    The Times Literary Review is published in London.

  8. 8

    A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.

    The troops assembled for a review by the Queen.

verb

  1. 1

    To survey; to look broadly over.

    Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly review historical approaches to the problem.

  2. 2

    To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.

    The critic reviews every new play in London.

  3. 3

    To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.

  4. 4

    CanadaUSTo look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo view or see again; to look back on.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo retrace; to go over again.

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

How do you abbreviate review?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of review: rev..

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

Review in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrelecture (second or subsequent reading of a text or…), critique, compte rendu (account intended as a critical evaluation of a…), révision (judicial reassessment of a case or an event), revue (periodical which makes a survey of the arts or…), réviser (to look back over in order to correct or edit…)
GermanDurchsicht, Nachprüfung, Überprüfung, Rezension (second or subsequent reading of a text or…), Kritik (account intended as a critical evaluation of a…), durchsehen (to look broadly over)
Portugueserevisão (second or subsequent reading of a text or…), crítica, resenha (account intended as a critical evaluation of a…), revisar (to look broadly over), revista (military inspection or display for the benefit…), resenhar (to write a review)
Spanishrepaso, revisión, repasos, revisiones (second or subsequent reading of a text or…), crítica, reseña (account intended as a critical evaluation of a…)

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 review come from?

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. Compare retrospect. Doublet of revue.

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

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