redrum
/ɹiːˈdɹʌm/verb
redrum is a verb meaning “To place into new drums (barrels)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-D-R-U-M, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does redrum mean?
verb
- 1
To place into new drums (barrels).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce redrum?
- /ɹiːˈdɹʌm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of redrum
- redrums present, singular, he/she/it
- redrumming participle, present
- redrummed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is redrum?
Redrum appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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 redrum come from?
From re- + drum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).