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relive

/ɹiːˈlɪv/verb

relive is spelled R-E-L-I-V-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, relive means “To experience (something) again; to live over again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in relive?

Letters6: R-E-L-I-V-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.7 times per million words; the 21,209th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is relive?

Relive appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th 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 relive?

  • /ɹiːˈlɪv/

Relive has 2 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-relive.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with relive?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as relive.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: revile.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of relive

  • relives present, singular, he/she/it
  • reliving participle, present
  • relived participle, past

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

What does relive mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To experience (something) again; to live over again.

    I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming.

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate.

  3. 3

    To come back to life.

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

Relive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense to come back to life:

LanguageWords
Frenchrevivre
Portuguesereviver
Spanishrevivir

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 relive come from?

From re- + live.

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

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