révision

/\ʁe.vi.zjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,397

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

révision is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de réviser. Pronounced \ʁe.vi.zjɔ̃\. It ranks #5,397 in French word frequency. Often confused with revisité and révisions.

Key facts for révision
PropertyValue
Headwordrévision
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁe.vi.zjɔ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,397
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for révision is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.vi.zjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,397 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for révision, with forms such as "revision", "rrévision", and "rvéision". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "revisité", "révisions", "religion", and more, 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 révision, spelled R-É-V-I-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
    Action de réviser.
  2. 2
    Résultat de celle-ci.
  3. 3
    Logiciel comportant des corrections par rapport à la version précédente.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des opérations de lever et d’élaboration cartographique destinées à rectifier tout ou partie d’une carte, en tenant compte de toutes les modifications intervenues depuis la parution de la carte ou la révision précédente.
  5. 5
    Remise en état, après une mission, d’un véhicule aérospatial en vue de sa réutilisation.
  6. 6
    , Pratique frauduleuse consistant, pour un groupe de personnes, à faire des enchères sur un bien déjà obtenu par un enchérisseur, désigné par ce groupe.
  7. 7
    Examen médical des jeunes hommes susceptibles de porter les armes.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: revision,rrévision,rvéision,réivsion,réviison,révisino,révisionn,révisoin,révission,révsiion,révvision,érvision

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for révision

Misspelling Variants of "révision"

revision8rrévision9rvéision8réivsion8réviison8révisino8révisionn9révisoin8
Misspelling Variants of "révision"

Frequency rank: #5,397 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "révision"?
"révision" is spelled R-É-V-I-S-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.vi.zjɔ̃\.
What does "révision" mean?
As a noun, "révision" means: Action de réviser.
What words are commonly confused with "révision"?
"révision" is commonly confused with "revisité", "révisions", "religion". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "révision"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "révision" is \ʁe.vi.zjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "révision" come from?
"révision" 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.