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recompression

noun

recompression is spelled R-E-C-O-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, recompression means “The act of recompressing; compression again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of recompression is recompressions.

How many letters and syllables are in recompression?

Letters13: R-E-C-O-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th 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 recompression?

Recompression appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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 recompression

  • recompressions plural

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

What does recompression mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act of recompressing; compression again.

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

Where does recompression come from?

From re- + compression.

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

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