reorient

Other forms of reorient

past tense

reoriented·

present participle

reorienting·

third person

reorients·

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 reorient

What does reorient mean?

reorient means "orient once again, after a disorientation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reorient?

reorient has 4 syllables: re-o-ri-ent. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ɹiˈɔɹiɛnt/.

What is another word for reorient?

Close synonyms include reorientate. 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 reorient a common word?

reorient 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.