# regime

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɹəˈʒiːm/ · frequency rank #4,325

## Definitions
1. Mode of rule or management.
2. A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
3. A period of rule.
4. A regulated system; a regimen.
5. A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
6. A set of characteristics.

## Etymology
From Middle English regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.

## Easily confused with
- **Regis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-regis)
- **region** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-region)
- **retire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-retire)
- **revive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-revive)
- **reside** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-reside)
- **regina** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-regina)
- **revise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-revise)
- **relive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-relive)
- **rename** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-rename)
- **résumé** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-resume)
- **regimen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-regimen)
- **regiment** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regime-vs-regiment)
- **recipe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recipe-vs-regime)
- **Reggie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reggie-vs-regime)
- **reggae** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reggae-vs-regime)
- **recite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recite-vs-regime)
- **refine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/refine-vs-regime)
- **Recife** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recife-vs-regime)
- **ragtime** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ragtime-vs-regime)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ergime`, `reggime`, `regiem`, `regimme`, `regmie`, `reigme`, `rgeime`, `rregime`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/regime