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repave

re·pave/ɹiːˈpeɪv/verb

repave is spelled R-E-P-A-V-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables (re·pave). It appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, repave means “To pave over again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in repave?

Letters6: R-E-P-A-V-E
Syllables2: re·pave
In writingabout once in every 24 million words; the 148,541st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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

How common is repave?

Repave appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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 repave?

  • /ɹiːˈpeɪv/

Repave has 2 syllables, split re·pave in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-repave.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with repave?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: pareve.

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 repave

  • repaves present, singular, he/she/it
  • repaving participle, present
  • repaved participle, past

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

What does repave mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To pave over again.

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

Where does repave come from?

From re- + pave.

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

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