recontextualization
noun
recontextualization is a noun meaning “The process or result of recontextualizing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-O-N-T-E-X-T-U-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of recontextualization is recontextualizations.
What does recontextualization mean?
noun
- 1
The process or result of recontextualizing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of recontextualization
- recontextualizations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is recontextualization?
Recontextualization appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 recontextualization come from?
From re- + contextualization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).