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reinitiate

verb

reinitiate is a verb meaning “To initiate again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-I-N-I-T-I-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does reinitiate mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To initiate again.

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

Forms of reinitiate

  • reinitiates present, singular, he/she/it
  • reinitiating participle, present
  • reinitiated participle, past
  • re-initiate

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

How common is reinitiate?

Reinitiate appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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).

Reinitiate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishreiniciar

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 reinitiate come from?

From re- + initiate.

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