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revolute

adjective, verb

revolute is spelled R-E-V-O-L-U-T-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, revolute means “Rolled or recurved on itself” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in revolute?

Letters8: R-E-V-O-L-U-T-E
In writingabout once in every 34 million words; the 178,202nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 revolute?

Revolute appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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).

What rhymes with revolute?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: truelove.

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 revolute

  • revolutes present, singular, he/she/it
  • revoluting participle, present
  • revoluted participle, past

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

What does revolute mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Rolled or recurved on itself.

  2. 2

    Having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward.

verb

  1. 1

    to roll back, curve upwards

  2. 2

    rareto participate in or incite a revolution or revolt

    The Hawaiians have ‘revoluted’ and dethroned the fat squaw they have hitherto chosen to call a queen.

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

Where does revolute come from?

Borrowed from Latin revolūtus, perfect passive participle of revolvō (“roll back”).

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

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