rescale
verb
rescale is a verb meaning “To alter the scale of a drawing or project; to change the physical proportions” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-S-C-A-L-E, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does rescale mean?
verb
- 1
To alter the scale of a drawing or project; to change the physical proportions.
- 2
To change the scope of a business or project to meet a change in demands.
- 3
To scale again
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rescale
- rescales present, singular, he/she/it
- rescaling participle, present
- rescaled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rescale?
Rescale appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).
Where does rescale come from?
From re- + scale.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).