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revise

/ɹɪˈvaɪz/verb, noun

revise is spelled R-E-V-I-S-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, revise means “To review, alter and amend, especially of written material” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in revise?

Letters6: R-E-V-I-S-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.0 times per million words; the 15,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is revise?

Revise appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th 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 revise?

  • UK /ɹɪˈvaɪz/
  • US /ɹɪˈvaɪz/
  • US /ɹəˈvaɪz/

Revise 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-revise.ogg, En-au-revise.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with revise?

8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as revise from its last stressed vowel (/aɪz/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: siever.

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 revise

  • revises present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • revising participle, present
  • revised participle, past

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

What does revise mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.

    This statute should be revised.

  2. 2

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

    I've only just begun to revise for my exams.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo look at again, to reflect on.

noun

  1. 1

    A review or a revision.

  2. 2

    A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.

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

Revise in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrevoir (to review, alter and amend, especially of…), réviser (to look over again)
Germanrevidieren, ändern, überarbeiten (to review, alter and amend, especially of…), wiederholen, rekapitulieren, repetieren (to look over again)
Portugueserevisar (to review, alter and amend, especially of…)
Spanishcorregir, enmendar, modificar, actualizar, emendar, subsanar (to review, alter and amend, especially of…)

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 revise come from?

Borrowed from Middle French réviser, from Latin revīsō, from re- + vīsō (“examine”), frequentative of videō (“see”).

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

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