revelation

Other forms of revelation

plural

revelations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about revelation

What does revelation mean?

revelation means "the speech act of making something evident". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in revelation?

revelation has 4 syllables: rev-e-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌɹɛvəˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for revelation?

Close synonyms include disclosure, revealing, divine revelation, Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Apocalypse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is revelation a common word?

revelation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with revelation?

65 words rhyme with revelation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.