reveal
\ɹɪˈvil\
The verdict
“reveal” is uncommon French (frequency #75,163 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,163
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Révélateur (ce qui permet la révélation d'un phénomène ignoré).
Corpus desk
Index FR-reveal · reveal · French
reveal · rank #75,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,163
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH retraitées
Nearest frequency peer: retraitées (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « reveal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ressemblero…
ressembleront
24,840 corpus weight
- retraitées
retraitées
24,839 corpus weight
- reveal
reveal
24,838 corpus weight
- rivoire
rivoire
24,837 corpus weight
- roa
roa
24,836 corpus weight
- Roannais
Roannais
24,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « reveal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reveal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹɪˈvil\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « reveal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
reveal is uncommon French at frequency #75,163 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɹɪˈvil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Révélateur (ce qui permet la révélation d'un phénomène ignoré).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for reveal in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is reveal, spelled R-E-V-E-A-L.
Definition
- 1Révélateur (ce qui permet la révélation d'un phénomène ignoré).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reveal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They decided to throw a special shower to disclose the big reveal about the gender of the baby.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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