reattribute
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To change the attribution of; to give credit to someone else for a deed.
Example Sentences
- "A magnificent picture of a falcon, long attributed to the 14th-century Chinese animal painter Xu Ze, has recently been reattributed to the 16th-century Korean painter Yi Am, partly on the basis of a seal stamped on the picture's surface."
Etymology
From re- + attribute.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re