redux
/ˈɹiːdʌks/adjective, noun
redux is an adjective meaning “Of a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-D-U-X and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does redux mean?
adjective
- 1
Of a topic, redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.
noun
- 1
A theme or topic that is redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce redux?
- /ˈɹiːdʌks/
- /ɹiˈdʌks/
Redux 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-redux.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-redux2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of redux
- reduxes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is redux?
Redux appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,832nd 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).
Redux in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense redone, restored, brought back, or revisited:
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 redux come from?
From Latin redux (“that returns”), from redūcō (“to bring back”). The word may have re-entered popular usage in the United States with the publication of the novel Rabbit Redux (1971) by John Updike, although it had previously been used in medicine, literary titles, and product names.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).