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replete

/ɹɪˈpliːt/adjective, noun, verb

replete is spelled R-E-P-L-E-T-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, replete means “Abounding, amply provided” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in replete?

Letters7: R-E-P-L-E-T-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 32,393rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is replete?

Replete appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd 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 replete?

  • /ɹɪˈpliːt/

Replete 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-us-replete.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of replete

  • more replete comparative
  • most replete superlative
  • repletes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • repleting participle, present
  • repleted participle, past

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

What does replete mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Abounding, amply provided.

    A kitchen replete with all the ultimate appliances.

  2. 2

    Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.

  3. 3

    Isomorphism-closed: Inheriting all the isomorphisms of C. Formally: such that for any isomorphism f in C, if f 's source is in S, then f and f 's target is also in S.

noun

  1. 1

    A honeypot ant.

verb

  1. 1

    To fill to repletion, or restore something that has been depleted.

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

Replete in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germansatt (abounding)
Portugueserepleto, repleta (abounding), cheio, cheia (filled to bursting)
Spanishrepleto (abounding), repletar (Translations)

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 replete come from?

From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.

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

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