# recite

> English word · Verb · IPA /ɹɪˈsaɪt/ · frequency rank #20,200

## Definitions
1. To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
2. To list or enumerate something.
3. To deliver a recitation.

## Etymology
From Middle English reciten, from Old French reciter, from Latin recitō.

## Easily confused with
- **rite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-rite)
- **reit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-reit)
- **remit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-remit)
- **refit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-refit)
- **remote** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-remote)
- **regime** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-regime)
- **relate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-relate)
- **retire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-retire)
- **revive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-revive)
- **reside** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-reside)
- **revise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-revise)
- **refine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-refine)
- **relive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-relive)
- **refute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-refute)
- **repute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-repute)
- **rewrite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-rewrite)
- **reunite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-reunite)
- **respite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-respite)
- **recipe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recipe-vs-recite)
- **rebate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rebate-vs-recite)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ercite`, `rceite`, `reccite`, `reciet`, `recitte`, `rectie`, `reicte`, `rrecite`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/recite