Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rechannel

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rechan-nel
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To channel in a new or different way.

Example Sentences

"Like many people of his generation, open homosexuality was not an option, and so his desires were limited to more furtive couplings and rechanneled into a whirlwind of frenzied political activity."
"I wondered how some of that compassion for a hawk could be rechanneled to help human beings like those I had just seen dying in Darfur."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English channel English rechannel From re- + channel.

Inflected Forms

rechannels (present, singular) rechanneling (US, participle) rechannelling (UK, participle) rechanneled (US, participle) rechanneled (US, past) rechannelled (UK, participle) rechannelled (UK, past)

Questions

What does rechannel mean?: To channel in a new or different way.
Where does rechannel come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English channel English rechannel From re- + channel.

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