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revivalist

noun, adjective

revivalist is spelled R-E-V-I-V-A-L-I-S-T: 10 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 76,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, revivalist means “Someone who seeks to revive something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of revivalist is revivalists.

How many letters and syllables are in revivalist?

Letters10: R-E-V-I-V-A-L-I-S-T
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 76,798th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is revivalist?

Revivalist appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 76,798th 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 revivalist?

    Revivalist has 4 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).

    Forms of revivalist

    • revivalists plural
    • more revivalist comparative
    • most revivalist superlative

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

    What does revivalist mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      Someone who seeks to revive something.

      an Art Deco revivalist

    2. 2

      USAn evangelistic preacher.

    adjective

    1. 1

      USEvangelistic.

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

    Revivalist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense evangelistic:

    LanguageWords
    Frenchrevivaliste

    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 revivalist come from?

    From revival + -ist.

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

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