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relabel

/riˈleɪbəl/verb

relabel is a verb meaning “To label again; to apply a new label to” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-L-A-B-E-L and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does relabel mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To label again; to apply a new label to.

  2. 2

    To label differently; to label with something else.

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

How do you pronounce relabel?

  • UK /riːˈleɪbəl/
  • US /riˈleɪbəl/

Relabel 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 relabel

  • relabels present, singular, he/she/it
  • relabeling US, participle, present
  • relabelling UK, participle, present
  • relabeled US, participle, past
  • relabelled UK, participle, past
  • re-label

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

How common is relabel?

Relabel appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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 relabel come from?

From re- + label.

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