rere
/ɾiːɾ/noun
rere is a noun meaning “back portion or area behind (a building, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-R-E, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rere is reres.
What does rere mean?
noun
- 1
archaicArchaic spelling of rear (all meanings).
- 2
Irelandback portion or area behind (a building, etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rere?
- /ɾiːɾ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rere
- reres plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rere?
Rere appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th 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).