revisionist
/ɹɪˈvɪʒənɪst/
"revisionist" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“revisionist” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,159. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,159
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to revisionism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-revisionist · revisionist · English
revisionist · rank #32,159 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,159
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reverb
Nearest frequency peer: reverb (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “revisionist”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- reschedule
reschedule
67,846 corpus weight
- retroactive
retroactive
67,844 corpus weight
- reverb
reverb
67,843 corpus weight
- revisionist
revisionist
67,842 corpus weight
- rodman
rodman
67,839 corpus weight
- Rohingya
Rohingya
67,838 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “revisionist” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revisionist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈvɪʒənɪst/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #32,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “revisionist” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around revisionist (IPA /ɹɪˈvɪʒənɪst/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,159 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Of or pertaining to revisionism.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for revisionist, with forms such as "ervisionist", "reivsionist", and "reviisonist". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "revisionism", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From revision + -ist. The correct English form is revisionist, spelled R-E-V-I-S-I-O-N-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to revisionism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how revisionist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The revolutionary committee of Changtien commune, Kuantien County, Liaoning Province, has led the commune members to earnestly study Chairman Mao's works and criticize revisionist theories advocated by Liu Shao-chi.
Wang interjected: "We are preparing large exhibitions of art done by workers, peasants and soldiers in cooperation with the art teachers and students. Among them is one popular work entitled 'Never Stop Struggling as Long as You Are Alive.' It is a painting depicting the story of our heroic soldiers fighting the Soviet revisionist troops when they invaded…
Etymology
From revision + -ist.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ervisionist
- reivsionist
- reviisonist
- revisinoist
- revisioinst
- revisionisst
- revisionistt
- revisionits
- revisionnist
- revisionsit
- revisoinist
- revissionist
- revsiionist
- revvisionist
- rrevisionist
- rveisionist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of revisionist - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "revisionist", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
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- 16 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #32,159 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.