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recast

/ɹiːˈkɑːst/verb, noun

recast is a verb meaning “To cast or throw again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-A-S-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does recast mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To cast or throw again.

  2. 2

    To mould again.

    The whole bell had to be recast although it had only one tiny, hardly visible crack.

  3. 3

    To reproduce in a new form.

  4. 4

    To assign (roles in a play or performance) to different actors.

  5. 5

    To assign (actors) to different roles.

    She was recast as the villain.

noun

  1. 1

    The act or process of recasting.

  2. 2

    An utterance translated into another grammatical form.

    Adults may use recasts to suggest corrections to mistakes in children's speech.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce recast?

  • /ɹiːˈkɑːst/
  • /ɹiːˈkæst/

As a noun (“The act or process of recasting”): /ˈɹiːkɑːst/, /ˈɹiːkæst/.

Recast has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-recast.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-recast2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of recast

  • recasts present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • recasting participle, present
  • recasted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is recast?

Recast appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Recast in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishrefundir, reformular, reestructurar, recomponer, reelaborar

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does recast come from?

From re- + cast.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).