# repatriation

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #26,939

## Definitions
1. The process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
2. The process of returning artworks, museum exhibits, etc. to their country of origin.
3. The process of converting a foreign currency into the currency of one's own country.

## Etymology
Either a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin repatriātiō (“act of restoring someone to their homeland”) or from Italian repatriazione and remodelled after words in -ation. By surface analysis, repatriate + -ion.

## Easily confused with
- **reparation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reparation-vs-repatriation)

## Common misspellings (18)
`erpatriation`, `reaptriation`, `repartiation`, `repatiration`, `repatraition`, `repatriaiton`, `repatriasion`, `repatriatino`, `repatriationn`, `repatriatoin`, `repatriattion`, `repatritaion`, `repatrriation`, `repattriation`, `reppatriation`, `reptariation`, `rpeatriation`, `rrepatriation`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/repatriation