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rehouse

verb

rehouse is spelled R-E-H-O-U-S-E: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, rehouse means “To give a new house to; to relocate someone to a new house” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in rehouse?

Letters7: R-E-H-O-U-S-E
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 145,125th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 rehouse?

Rehouse appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).

Forms of rehouse

  • rehouses present, singular, he/she/it
  • rehousing participle, present
  • rehoused participle, past

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

What does rehouse mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To give a new house to; to relocate someone to a new house.

  2. 2

    To store in a new location.

    The existing collection of paintings will be rehoused in the new gallery.

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

Rehouse in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense to rehouse:

LanguageWords
Frenchreloger
Portugueserealojar

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 rehouse come from?

From re- + house.

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

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