reentrant
/ɹiːˈɛntɹənt/adjective, noun
reentrant is spelled R-E-E-N-T-R-A-N-T: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, reentrant means “Designating a structure at an angle pointing inward towards the centre of the fortification; opposed to salient” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in reentrant?
| Letters | 9: R-E-E-N-T-R-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is reentrant?
Reentrant appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).
How do you pronounce reentrant?
- /ɹiːˈɛntɹənt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-reentrant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of reentrant
- re-entrant
- reëntrant
- reentrants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does reentrant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Designating a structure at an angle pointing inward towards the centre of the fortification; opposed to salient.
- 2
Pertaining to an angle pointing inwards, or to a line forming part of such an angle.
- 3
Pertaining to a type of angular valley cutting deep into the side of a hill or mountain.
- 4
Pertaining to a type of cardiac arrhythmia in which an impulse re-excites an area that has already been stimulated.
- 5
Designating a way of tuning the strings of certain stringed instruments, such that they follow a pattern of rising and falling intervals, rather than having successively higher pitches.
- 6
That may be executed more than once at a time either by different threads, or because of recursion.
Global variables must not be altered by reentrant code.
- 7
Designed to return to the Earth's atmosphere.
- 8
Such that the corresponding lock can be reacquired by the locking thread.
The global interpreter lock of the embedded scripting engine is not reentrant.
noun
- 1
An angle or part that reenters itself.
- 2
One who enters (the labour market, etc.) again.
- 3
A valley between a pair of parallel ridges.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does reentrant come from?
From re- + entrant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).