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recontact

verb, noun

recontact is a verb meaning “To contact again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-O-N-T-A-C-T, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does recontact mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To contact again.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of contacting again.

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

Forms of recontact

  • recontacts present, singular, he/she/it
  • recontacting participle, present
  • recontacted participle, past

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

How common is recontact?

Recontact appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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).

Where does recontact come from?

From re- + contact.

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