recontextualize
verb
recontextualize is a verb meaning “To set in a new context” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-O-N-T-E-X-T-U-A-L-I-Z-E, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does recontextualize mean?
verb
- 1
To set in a new context.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of recontextualize
- recontextualizes present, singular, he/she/it
- recontextualizing participle, present
- recontextualized participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is recontextualize?
Recontextualize appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).
Recontextualize in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | recontextualizar |
| Spanish | recontextualizar |
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 recontextualize come from?
From re- + contextualize.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).