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reoccurrence

noun

reoccurrence is spelled R-E-O-C-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “recurrence vs reoccurrence” about 14,800 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, reoccurrence means “An instance of something taking place again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of reoccurrence is reoccurrences.

How many letters and syllables are in reoccurrence?

Letters12: R-E-O-C-C-U-R-R-E-N-C-E
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 119,826th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How common is reoccurrence?

Reoccurrence appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).

Words people confuse with reoccurrence

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of reoccurrence

  • reoccurrences plural

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

What does reoccurrence mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An instance of something taking place again.

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

Where does reoccurrence come from?

From re- + occurrence, after reoccur.

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

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