rewetting
noun, verb
rewetting is a noun meaning “A second or subsequent wetting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-W-E-T-T-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rewetting is rewettings.
What does rewetting mean?
noun
- 1
A second or subsequent wetting
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of rewet
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rewetting
- rewettings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rewetting?
Rewetting appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 rewetting come from?
From re- + wetting.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).