reconfirm
verb
reconfirm is a verb meaning “To confirm again; to establish more firmly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-O-N-F-I-R-M and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does reconfirm mean?
verb
- 1
To confirm again; to establish more firmly
- 2
datedTo advise an airline of your intention to use a reservation, or risk cancellation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce reconfirm?
Reconfirm 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).
Forms of reconfirm
- reconfirms present, singular, he/she/it
- reconfirming participle, present
- reconfirmed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is reconfirm?
Reconfirm appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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).
Reconfirm in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense confirm again:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | reconfirmar |
| Spanish | reconfirmar |
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 reconfirm come from?
From re- + confirm.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).