révoquer
French, verb/ʁe.vɔ.ke/
révoquer is spelled R-É-V-O-Q-U-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 32,322nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Révoquer is a French verb meaning “to revoke; to remove; to take away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Destituer ; ôter à quelqu’un, pour des raisons de mécontentement, les fonctions, le pouvoir, l’emploi…”.
What does révoquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to revoke; to remove; to take away
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Destituer ; ôter à quelqu’un, pour des raisons de mécontentement, les fonctions, le pouvoir, l’emploi amovible qu’on lui avait donné. 2. (En parlant des choses) Annuler, déclarer de nulle valeur à l’avenir. 3. (Wikipedia) défaire une contribution précédente par ajout d'une contribution qui revient à un état antérieur, sans annuler la contribution défaite qui reste consultable dans l'historique
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 révoquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- révoquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- révoqué participle past
- révoque first-person indicative present
- révoques indicative present second-person
- révoquons first-person indicative plural
- révoquez indicative plural present
- révoquent indicative plural present
- révoquais first-person imperfect indicative
- révoquait imperfect indicative singular
- révoquions first-person imperfect indicative
- révoquiez imperfect indicative plural
- révoquaient imperfect indicative plural
- révoquai first-person historic indicative
- révoquas historic indicative past
- révoqua historic indicative past
- révoquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce révoquer?
- /ʁe.vɔ.ke/
- \ʁe.vɔ.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to révoquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is révoquer in French?
révoquer appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).