rescind
/ɹɪˈsɪnd/verb
rescind is spelled R-E-S-C-I-N-D. The wrong spelling people search most is recind: about 610 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Rescind is a verb meaning “To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect”.
How many letters and syllables are in rescind?
| Letters | 7: R-E-S-C-I-N-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 34,063rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, recind, about 610 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell rescind?
Rescind is spelled R-E-S-C-I-N-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for rescind in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is rescind?
Rescind appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd 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 rescind?
- /ɹɪˈsɪnd/
- /ɹɪˈzɪnd/
- /ɹəˈsɪnd/
Rescind 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-rescind.ogg, En-au-rescind.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with rescind?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as rescind.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: discern.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of rescind
- rescinds present, singular, he/she/it
- rescinding participle, present
- rescinded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does rescind mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
The agency will rescind the policy because many people are dissatisfied with it.
- 2
To cut away or off.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Rescind in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense repeal, annul, or declare void:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | abroger, annuler |
| German | widerrufen, annullieren, aufheben, für ungültig erklären, rückgängig machen, außer Kraft setzen |
| Portuguese | rescindir |
| Spanish | rescindir |
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 rescind come from?
From the Latin rescindō (“to cut back”), from re- (“back”) + scindō (“to cut”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).