rethink

Other forms of rethink

plural

rethinks·

past tense or participle

rethought

present participle

rethinking·

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 rethink

What does rethink mean?

rethink means "thinking again about a choice previously made". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rethink?

rethink has 2 syllables: re-think. The stress falls on "think". In IPA it is /ɹiˈθɪŋk/.

What is another word for rethink?

Close synonyms include reconsideration, second thought, afterthought. 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 rethink a common word?

rethink is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 rethink?

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