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reexamination

noun

reexamination is a noun meaning “Alternative form of re-examination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-E-X-A-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N and has 6 syllables, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reexamination is reëxaminations or reexaminations.

What does reexamination mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of re-examination.

noun

as reëxamination
  1. 1

    rareRare spelling of re-examination.

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

How do you pronounce reexamination?

    Reexamination has 6 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

    Forms of reexamination

    • reëxaminations plural
    • reexaminations plural

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

    How common is reexamination?

    Reexamination appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd 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).

    Words people confuse with reexamination

    Also written: re-examination (one word or two).

    Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).