How do you pronounce repute?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɹɪˈpjuːt/.

repute

/ɹɪˈpjuːt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English

Syllables: re-pute
IPA: /ɹɪˈpjuːt/

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Meaning

noun

Reputation, especially a good reputation.

Uncountable

verb

To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.

verb

To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something

Example Sentences

"At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass."
"Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?"
"The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent."
"If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing."

Etymology

From Old French reputer, from Latin reputō (“to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + putō (“to think”).

Origin

Source language: Old French

Word Breakdown

Root: reputer, reputō

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

reputes (plural) reputes (present, singular) reputing (participle, present) reputed (participle, past) reputed (past)

Derived Forms

disrepute reputable reputation reputeless misrepute reputability reputee

Phrases

habit and repute ill repute marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute marriage by habit and repute

Synonyms

reputation think of know as be known as regard as look upon look on esteem take to be

Rhymes With

shoot suit route cute fruit root dispute boot pursuit acute recruit salute