# reprise

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɹɪˈpɹiːz/ · frequency rank #30,566

## Definitions
1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
2. A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
3. A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
4. A taking by way of retaliation.
5. Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
6. A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
7. In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.

## Etymology
From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.

## Easily confused with
- **revise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reprise-vs-revise)
- **rewrite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reprise-vs-rewrite)
- **reptile** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reprise-vs-reptile)
- **repose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repose-vs-reprise)
- **realise** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/realise-vs-reprise)
- **reprint** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reprint-vs-reprise)
- **repress** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repress-vs-reprise)
- **reprieve** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reprieve-vs-reprise)
- **reprisal** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reprisal-vs-reprise)
- **rephrase** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rephrase-vs-reprise)

## Common misspellings (10)
`erprise`, `repirse`, `repprise`, `repries`, `reprisse`, `reprrise`, `reprsie`, `rerpise`, `rperise`, `rreprise`

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