Skip to main content
PlainSpell

redo

/ɹiˈduː/verb, noun

redo is a verb meaning “To do again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-D-O and has 2 syllables, and it appears 1.5 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does redo mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To do again.

noun

  1. 1

    A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.

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

How do you pronounce redo?

  • /ɹiˈduː/

As a noun (“A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc”): /ˈɹiːdu/.

Redo 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: En-us-redo.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-redo_(noun).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of redo

  • redoes present, singular, he/she/it
  • redoing participle, present
  • redid past
  • redone participle, past
  • re-do
  • redos plural

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

How common is redo?

Redo appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,651st 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).

Words people confuse with redo

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

re-do vs redo0 B

Also written: re-do (one word or two).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Redo in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense to do again:

LanguageWords
Frenchrefaire
Germanwieder tun, wiederholen
Portugueserefazer
Spanishrehacer, asegundar, segundar, refacer (disused)

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 redo come from?

From re- + do.

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