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reacquaint

verb

reacquaint is spelled R-E-A-C-Q-U-A-I-N-T: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, reacquaint means “To acquaint again; to reintroduce or refamiliarise” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in reacquaint?

Letters10: R-E-A-C-Q-U-A-I-N-T
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 119,826th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is reacquaint?

Reacquaint appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).

Forms of reacquaint

  • reacquaints present, singular, he/she/it
  • reacquainting participle, present
  • reacquainted participle, past

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

What does reacquaint mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To acquaint again; to reintroduce or refamiliarise.

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

Reacquaint in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense to acquaint again; to reintroduce or refamiliarise:

LanguageWords
Germanwieder vertraut machen, wieder in Kontakt kommen, wieder neu gewöhnen, erneut kennenlernen, wieder anfreunden

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 reacquaint come from?

From re- + acquaint.

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

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