Repetition refers to identical source segments that recur within a single translation project or across a set of files submitted together. In translation memory analysis, repetitions are counted separately from exact matches that come from a legacy TM, and they are often billed at a lower rate because the same translation can be reused after the first occurrence is approved.
Repetition appears in CAT tool analysis reports and quote breakdowns when a project contains boilerplate text, recurring UI strings, repeated safety warnings, or repeated product descriptions across many files. Project managers isolate repetition counts to explain why the effective per-word cost is lower than the raw word count suggests, and to plan how much reuse can be applied before translation begins.
A frequent error is assuming that repeated segments always appear in the same context, so a copied rendering may be wrong when the same sentence functions differently in another menu, dialog, or document section. Translators may also leave repetitions unresolved during the first pass and then discover inconsistencies later, which creates duplicated review effort and quality scores that penalize the whole project.
For creative and consumer content the failure mode is flatness, not inaccuracy — and flatness passes an accuracy check. Terms here also carry technical constraints (reading speed, character budgets) that are part of the brief.
Angel Translation locks terms like this into a project terminology base before expert review begins, so the same source term resolves to the same target term across every document in a submission — and stays consistent in the next revision. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
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