reincarnation
/ˌɹiːɪŋkɑː(ɹ)ˈneɪʃən/noun
reincarnation is spelled R-E-I-N-C-A-R-N-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is reicarnation: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 238 of all searches for the word. Reincarnation is a noun meaning “A rebirth of a soul, in a physical life form, such as a body”. The plural of reincarnation is reincarnations.
How many letters and syllables are in reincarnation?
| Letters | 13: R-E-I-N-C-A-R-N-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,835th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, reicarnation, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell reincarnation?
Reincarnation is spelled R-E-I-N-C-A-R-N-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 238 of the searches for reincarnation in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is reincarnation?
Reincarnation appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th 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 reincarnation?
- /ˌɹiːɪŋkɑː(ɹ)ˈneɪʃən/
Reincarnation has 5 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-reincarnation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of reincarnation
- reincarnations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does reincarnation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A rebirth of a soul, in a physical life form, such as a body.
Near-synonyms: metempsychosis, transmigration (both broadly synonymous)
- 2
A fresh embodiment.
- 3
A new, considerably improved, version.
a reincarnation of an old video game
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Reincarnation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | réincarnation |
| German | Wiedergeburt, Reinkarnation |
| Portuguese | reencarnação , reincarnação |
| Spanish | reencarnación |
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 reincarnation come from?
From reincarnate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).