réversion

/\ʁe.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#47,029

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

réversion is aFrenchnoun. It means: Retour, droit de retour, en vertu duquel les biens dont une personne a disposé en faveur d’une autre lui reviennent quand celle-ci meurt sans enfants. Pronounced \ʁe.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\. Often confused with révision and recension.

Key facts for réversion
PropertyValue
Headwordréversion
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁe.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#47,029
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of réversion in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for réversion is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #47,029 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for réversion, with forms such as "reversion", "rréversion", and "rvéersion". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "révision", "recension", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is réversion, spelled R-É-V-E-R-S-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Retour, droit de retour, en vertu duquel les biens dont une personne a disposé en faveur d’une autre lui reviennent quand celle-ci meurt sans enfants.
  2. 2
    Retour d’individus modifiés par le croisement, au type primitif, après un certain nombre de générations.
  3. 3
    Synonyme de régression et de rétrogression.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: reversion,rréversion,rvéersion,réevrsion,réverison,réverrsion,réversino,réversionn,réversoin,réverssion,révesrion,révresion,révversion,érversion

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for réversion

Misspelling Variants of "réversion"

reversion9rréversion10rvéersion9réevrsion9réverison9réverrsion10réversino9réversionn10
Misspelling Variants of "réversion"

Frequency rank: #47,029 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "réversion"?
"réversion" is spelled R-É-V-E-R-S-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\.
What does "réversion" mean?
As a noun, "réversion" means: Retour, droit de retour, en vertu duquel les biens dont une personne a disposé en faveur d’une autre lui reviennent quand celle-ci meurt sans enfants.
What words are commonly confused with "réversion"?
"réversion" is commonly confused with "révision", "recension". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "réversion"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "réversion" is \ʁe.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "réversion" come from?
"réversion" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.