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remodel

verb, noun

remodel is a verb meaning “to change the appearance, layout, or furnishings of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-M-O-D-E-L and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does remodel mean?

verb

  1. 1

    to change the appearance, layout, or furnishings of

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of remodeling.

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

How do you pronounce remodel?

  • US

Remodel has 3 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)-Qwertygiy-remodel.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of remodel

  • remodels present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • remodeling US, participle, present
  • remodelling UK, participle, present
  • remodeled US, participle, past
  • remodelled UK, participle, past

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

How common is remodel?

Remodel appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th 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).

Remodel in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense to change appearance of:

LanguageWords
Frenchremodeler
Germanumbilden, umgestalten
Portugueseremodelar
Spanishremodelar, reformar

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 remodel come from?

From re- + model.

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