revolve

Other forms of revolve

past tense

revolved·

present participle

revolving·

third person

revolves·

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 revolve

What does revolve mean?

revolve means "turn on or around an axis or a center". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in revolve?

revolve has 2 syllables: re-volve. The stress falls on "volve". In IPA it is /ɹiˈvɑlv/.

What is another word for revolve?

Close synonyms include go around, rotate, orb, orbit, roll. 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 revolve a common word?

revolve 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 revolve?

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