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reprobate

/ˈɹɛpɹəbət/adjective, noun, verb

reprobate is spelled R-E-P-R-O-B-A-T-E: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, reprobate means “Rejected; cast off as worthless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in reprobate?

Letters9: R-E-P-R-O-B-A-T-E
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 74,980th 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 reprobate?

Reprobate appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th 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 reprobate?

  • /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/

As a verb (“To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to…”): /ˈɹɛpɹəbeɪt/.

Reprobate has 3 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-reprobate1.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-reprobate2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of reprobate

  • more reprobate comparative
  • most reprobate superlative
  • reprobates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • reprobating participle, present
  • reprobated participle, past

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

What does reprobate mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    rareRejected; cast off as worthless.

  2. 2

    Rejected by God; damned, sinful.

  3. 3

    Immoral, having no religious or principled character.

    The reprobate criminal sneered at me.

noun

  1. 1

    One rejected by God; a sinful person.

  2. 2

    A person with low morals or principles.

verb

  1. 1

    To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.

  2. 2

    Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.

  3. 3

    To refuse, set aside.

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

Reprobate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrejeté, évincé, condamné, réprouvé, blâmé, flétri (rejected)
Germanzurückgewiesen, abgelehnt, aussortiert (rejected), verworfen (rejected by God), verkommen, verwerflich (immoral)
Portuguesereprovado (rejected), réprobo (rejected by God), reprovar, condenar (condemn)
Spanishreprobado, desdichado, infamado (rejected), maldito, anatematizado (rejected by God), réprobo (sinful person)

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 reprobate come from?

First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

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

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