# repeat

> English word · Verb · IPA /ɹɪˈpiːt/ · frequency rank #3,080

## Definitions
1. To do or say again (and again).
2. To refill (a prescription).
3. To happen again; recur.
4. To echo the words of (a person).
5. To strike the hours, as a watch does.
6. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
7. To repay or refund (an excess received).
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.
9. To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.

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

## Easily confused with
- **reset** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-reset)
- **repel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-repel)
- **report** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-report)
- **reveal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-reveal)
- **replay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-replay)
- **Rupert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-rupert)
- **repost** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-repost)
- **resent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-resent)
- **repent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-repent)
- **revert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-revert)
- **reread** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-reread)
- **respect** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-respect)
- **retreat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-retreat)
- **repeated** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-repeated)
- **repeater** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-repeater)
- **repay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repay-vs-repeat)
- **recent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/recent-vs-repeat)
- **reject** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reject-vs-repeat)
- **repeal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeal-vs-repeat)
- **regent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/regent-vs-repeat)

## Common misspellings (8)
`erpeat`, `reepat`, `repaet`, `repeatt`, `repeta`, `reppeat`, `rpeeat`, `rrepeat`

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