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reinitialize

verb

reinitialize is a verb meaning “To initialize again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-I-N-I-T-I-A-L-I-Z-E, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does reinitialize mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To initialize again.

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

Forms of reinitialize

  • reinitializes present, singular, he/she/it
  • reinitializing participle, present
  • reinitialized participle, past
  • reinitialise

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

How common is reinitialize?

Reinitialize appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).

Where does reinitialize come from?

From re- + initialize.

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