rewilding
noun, verb
rewilding is a noun meaning “The act of restoring a natural area to its former wild state, especially by repopulating it with animals that have been extirpated” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-W-I-L-D-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rewilding is rewildings.
What does rewilding mean?
noun
- 1
The act of restoring a natural area to its former wild state, especially by repopulating it with animals that have been extirpated.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of rewild
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rewilding
- rewildings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rewilding?
Rewilding appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th 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).
Rewilding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense large-scale conservation:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | réensauvagement |
| German | Renaturierung |
| Spanish | resilvestración |
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.