recast

Other forms of recast

past tense

recasted·

present participle

recasting·

third person

recasts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about recast

What does recast mean?

recast means "cast again, in a different role". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recast?

recast has 2 syllables: re-cast. The stress falls on "cast". In IPA it is /ɹiˈkæst/.

What is another word for recast?

Close synonyms include remold, remould, reforge, remodel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is recast a common word?

recast is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with recast?

14 words rhyme with recast. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.