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repeat

UK /ɹɪˈpiːt/verb, noun

repeat is spelled R-E-P-E-A-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, repeat means “To do or say again (and again)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in repeat?

Letters6: R-E-P-E-A-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing31 times per million words; the 3,052nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 repeat?

Repeat appears 31 times per million words in written English, the 3,052nd 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 repeat?

  • UK /ɹɪˈpiːt/
  • /ɹɪˈpit/
  • Canada /ɹɪˈpiːt/

As a noun (“An iteration; a repetition”): /ɹɪˈpiːt/, /ɹɪˈpit/, /ˈɹi.pit/.

Repeat 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: En-uk-to_repeat.ogg, En-us-repeat.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Ajshul-repeat.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with repeat

Also written: rinse and repeat, rinse-repeat, wash, rinse, repeat.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with repeat?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as repeat from its last stressed vowel (/it/, British pronunciation):

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 repeat

  • repeats present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • repeating participle, present
  • repeated participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

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

What does repeat mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To do or say again (and again).

    The scientists repeated the experiment in order to confirm the result.

  2. 2

    To refill (a prescription).

  3. 3

    To happen again; recur.

    A day like that has not yet repeated itself.

  4. 4

    To echo the words of (a person).

  5. 5

    To strike the hours, as a watch does.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.

  7. 7

    ScotlandTo repay or refund (an excess received).

  8. 8

    To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.

    Add 100, left 50. Repeat, over.

noun

  1. 1

    An iteration; a repetition.

    We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.

  2. 2

    A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.

  3. 3

    A refill of a prescription.

  4. 4

    A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).

  5. 5

    A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.

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

How do you abbreviate repeat?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of repeat: rep.

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

Repeat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrépéter (do or say again), répétition (pattern of nucleic acids)
Germanwiederholen (do or say again)
Portugueserepetir (do or say again), repetição (pattern of nucleic acids)
Spanishrepetir, menudear, refrendar (do or say again), repetición (pattern of nucleic acids)

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 repeat come from?

From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetō, from the prefix re- (“again”) + petō (“to attack, beseech”).

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

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