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retranslate

verb

retranslate is spelled R-E-T-R-A-N-S-L-A-T-E: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, retranslate means “To translate again or anew” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in retranslate?

Letters11: R-E-T-R-A-N-S-L-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 81 million words; the 286,585th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is retranslate?

Retranslate appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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 retranslate?

  • General-American

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-retranslate.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of retranslate

  • retranslates present, singular, he/she/it
  • retranslating participle, present
  • retranslated participle, past
  • re-translate

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

What does retranslate mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To translate again or anew.

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

Retranslate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense translate again or anew:

LanguageWords
Frenchretraduire

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 retranslate come from?

From re- + translate.

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

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