revolutionise
"revolutionise" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“revolutionise” is uncommon English (frequency #62,455 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,455
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To change radically or significantly, as in a revolution.
Corpus desk
Index EN-revolutionise · revolutionise · English
revolutionise · rank #62,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,455
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH revocable
Nearest frequency peer: revocable (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “revolutionise”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- retransmiss…
retransmission
37,549 corpus weight
- Reuss
Reuss
37,548 corpus weight
- revocable
revocable
37,547 corpus weight
- revolutioni…
revolutionise
37,546 corpus weight
- rewinding
rewinding
37,545 corpus weight
- Riedel
Riedel
37,543 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “revolutionise” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | revolutionise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #62,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “revolutionise” in English
Rare enough to double-check
revolutionise is uncommon English at frequency #62,455 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To change radically or significantly, as in a revolution.".
revolutionise doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From revolution + -ise. The correct English form is revolutionise, spelled R-E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1To change radically or significantly, as in a revolution.
Etymology
From revolution + -ise.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).