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rez

/ɹɛz/noun, verb

rez is spelled R-E-Z: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,767th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rez means “Clipping of reservation or reserve (semiautonomous Indigenous territory)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rez is rezes or rezzes.

How many letters and syllables are in rez?

Letters3: R-E-Z
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 44,767th 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 rez?

Rez appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,767th 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 rez?

  • /ɹɛz/

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

Words people confuse with rez

Also written: residence.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of rez

  • rezes plural
  • rezzes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • rezs present, singular, he/she/it
  • rezing participle, present
  • rezzing participle, present
  • rezed participle, past
  • rezzed participle, past

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

What does rez mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    CanadaUSinformalClipping of reservation or reserve (semiautonomous Indigenous territory).

  2. 2

    CanadaslangClipping of residence; dormitory.

  3. 3

    Clipping of resonance.

  4. 4

    Clipping of resurrection.

  5. 5

    Clipping of resolution.

verb

  1. 1

    Clipping of resurrect.

  2. 2

    To spawn or load into the game.

    Don't rez some enormous prop: it'll lag the server!

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

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