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repartition

noun, verb

repartition is spelled R-E-P-A-R-T-I-T-I-O-N: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, repartition means “A distribution or apportioning of something again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of repartition is repartitions.

How many letters and syllables are in repartition?

Letters11: R-E-P-A-R-T-I-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 28 million words; the 161,690th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in 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).

How common is repartition?

Repartition appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).

Forms of repartition

  • repartitions plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • repartitioning participle, present
  • repartitioned participle, past

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

What does repartition mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A distribution or apportioning of something again.

  2. 2

    The formatting of a hard drive, a database, etc. into different partitions.

  3. 3

    a partitioning of something in a different manner

verb

  1. 1

    To format (a hard drive, a database, etc.) into different partitions.

  2. 2

    to partition again

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

Repartition in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrépartition (a distribution or apportioning of something…), partitionner (to format into different partitions), repartitionner (to partition again)

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 repartition come from?

From Middle French répartition.

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

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