reversion

Other forms of reversion

plural

reversions·

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 reversion

What does reversion mean?

reversion means "(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reversion?

reversion has 3 syllables: re-ver-sion. The stress falls on "ver". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈvɝʒən/.

What is another word for reversion?

Close synonyms include atavism, throwback, reverse, reversal, turnabout. 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 reversion a common word?

reversion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 reversion?

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