How to spell rebuild

hear itre·build/ri'bɪld/verbPrefixes and work

What it means: To build something again after it is damaged or destroyed.

In a sentence: After the storm, we will rebuild the sandcastle.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as rebulid or rebild.

Same family: builder, building, rebuilding, rebuilt, construction. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Rebuild is formed from the prefix "re-", meaning "again", and the verb "build", which comes from Old English *byldan* related to "building a house." English uses the prefix "re-" in many verbs like "rewrite" and "redo" to show doing something again.

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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Words like this

reuse · reload · reservation · rewrite · replay · reform · overlook · refresh

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