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révélation

French, noun/ʁe.ve.la.sjɔ̃/

révélation is spelled R-É-V-É-L-A-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Révélation is a French feminine noun meaning “revelation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de révéler”.

What does révélation mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininerevelation

  2. 2

    femininerevelation

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action de révéler. 2. Certaines informations, orales ou écrites, qui expliquent des événements obscurs, ou font connaître des faits nouveaux. 3. Fait inattendu que l’on apprend soudain, ou qui, une fois connu en explique un grand nombre d’autres. 4. Manifestation soudaine des qualités, d'un talent qu’on ignorait, chez quelqu'un.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of révélation

  • révélations plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce révélation?

  • /ʁe.ve.la.sjɔ̃/
  • \ʁe.ve.la.sjɔ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to révélation

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is révélation in French?

révélation appears 13 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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