revert

Other forms of revert

past tense

reverted·

present participle

reverting·

third person

reverts·

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 revert

What does revert mean?

revert means "go back to a previous state". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in revert?

revert has 2 syllables: re-vert. The stress falls on "vert". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈvɝt/.

What is another word for revert?

Close synonyms include return, retrovert, regress, turn back. 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 revert a common word?

revert is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 revert?

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