reinsure
verb
reinsure is a verb meaning “To insure again (extending or replacing prior insurance)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-I-N-S-U-R-E and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does reinsure mean?
verb
- 1
To insure again (extending or replacing prior insurance).
- 2
To place insurance on the contract that insures something (allowing the insurer to offset risk in the same way the insuree did).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce reinsure?
Reinsure has 3 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).
Forms of reinsure
- reinsures present, singular, he/she/it
- reinsuring participle, present
- reinsured participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is reinsure?
Reinsure appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 reinsure come from?
From re- + insure.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).