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reseed

verb

reseed is spelled R-E-S-E-E-D: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, reseed means “To sow seeds again; to apply seed to (a plot of land) again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in reseed?

Letters6: R-E-S-E-E-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 152,206th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is reseed?

Reseed appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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 reseed?

    Reseed 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).

    What rhymes with reseed?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as reseed.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: seeder.

    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 reseed

    • reseeds present, singular, he/she/it
    • reseeding participle, present
    • reseeded participle, past

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

    What does reseed mean?

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

    verb

    1. 1

      To sow seeds again; to apply seed to (a plot of land) again.

      When the birds ate the seeds he had planted, the farmer was forced to reseed the field.

    2. 2

      To produce seeds to ensure the following generation without human intervention; to self-seed.

      The marigolds had reseeded themselves in the flower box, so he didn't have to buy new ones this year.

    3. 3

      To reset the input of an algorithm so as to ensure different results.

      The game reseeded its random number algorithm with a time-based value each time the game was restarted.

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

    Where does reseed come from?

    From re- + seed.

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

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