révéler
French, verb/ʁe.ve.le/
révéler is spelled R-É-V-É-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears 12 times per million words in written French, the 5,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Révéler is a French verb meaning “to reveal, to give away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Découvrir, déclarer, faire savoir une chose qui était inconnue et secrète”.
What does révéler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to reveal, to give away
- 2
to develop (a photo)
- 3
to emerge
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Découvrir, déclarer, faire savoir une chose qui était inconnue et secrète. 2. Montrer la manifestation directe de la pensée et de la volonté divines.
verb: 1. Vêler à nouveau.
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 révéler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- révélant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- révélé participle past
- révèle first-person indicative present
- révèles indicative present second-person
- révélons first-person indicative plural
- révélez indicative plural present
- révèlent indicative plural present
- révélais first-person imperfect indicative
- révélait imperfect indicative singular
- révélions first-person imperfect indicative
- révéliez imperfect indicative plural
- révélaient imperfect indicative plural
- révélai first-person historic indicative
- révélas historic indicative past
- révéla historic indicative past
- révélâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce révéler?
- /ʁe.ve.le/
- \ʁe.ve.le\
- \ʁə.ve.le\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to révéler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is révéler in French?
révéler appears 12 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).