revealing
/ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "a revealing analysis"
- "Lest anyone on the left think that Tucker [Carlson] and his friends are potential anti-capitalist allies, their specific objections to corporate capitalism are revealing. To them, the real issue is not labor exploitation, but rather the “corporate alliance with the progressive left.”"
- "Her shirt is rather revealing."
- "It became clear that we were witnessing a great revealing of secrets."
- "In these letters, and the remembered conversations, we have fuller revealings of the inner man, greater depth of discovery into that vast and labyrinthine mind[…]"
- "She paused a moment; while vaguely to his secret self Pierre revolved these strange revealings; but now he was all attention again as Isabel resumed."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈvilɪŋ/
- British English: /ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/