reclassify

1. 1.

   classify anew, change the previous classification

   “The zoologists had to reclassify the mollusks after they found new species”

   Broaderclassify

Other forms of reclassify

past tense or participle

reclassified

present participle

reclassifying·

third person

reclassifies·

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 reclassify

What does reclassify mean?

reclassify means "classify anew, change the previous classification".

How many syllables are in reclassify?

reclassify has 4 syllables: re-clas-si-fy. The stress falls on "clas". In IPA it is /ɹiˈklæsɪˌfaɪ/.

Is reclassify a common word?

reclassify is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 reclassify?

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