s’en revenir
\s‿ɑ̃ ʁəv.niʁ\
The verdict
“s’en revenir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Revenir après s’être éloigné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-en-revenir · s’en revenir · French
s’en revenir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | s’en revenir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿ɑ̃ ʁəv.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’en revenir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’en revenir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿ɑ̃ ʁəv.niʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Revenir après s’être éloigné.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for s’en revenir, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is s’en revenir, spelled S-’-E-N- -R-E-V-E-N-I-R.
Definition
- 1Revenir après s’être éloigné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how s’en revenir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’en est revenu en courant.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.