diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6ddafb0a0d..f254f4d32e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 - Reanalyze: fix reactive/server stale results when cross-file references change without changing dead declarations (non-transitive mode). https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript/pull/8173
 - Add duplicate package detection to rewatch. https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript/pull/8180
+- Rewatch: do not warn about "reanalyze" config field. https://github.com/rescript-lang/rescript/pull/8181
 
 #### :memo: Documentation
 
diff --git a/rewatch/CompilerConfigurationSpec.md b/rewatch/CompilerConfigurationSpec.md
index 6b32d4d96a..f3ec4b0889 100644
--- a/rewatch/CompilerConfigurationSpec.md
+++ b/rewatch/CompilerConfigurationSpec.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ This document contains a list of all bsconfig parameters with remarks, and wheth
 | entries               | array of Target-Item    |                                          |     [_]      |
 | bs-external-includes  | array of string         |                                          |     [_]      |
 | suffix                | Suffix                  |                                          |     [x]      |
-| reanalyze             | Reanalyze               |                                          |     [_]      |
+| reanalyze             | Reanalyze               | Reanalyze config; ignored by rewatch     |     [x]      |
 | experimental-features | ExperimentalFeatures    |                                          |     [x]      |
 | editor                | object                  | VS Code tooling only; ignored by rewatch |     [x]      |
 
diff --git a/rewatch/src/config.rs b/rewatch/src/config.rs
index 55ea4baf15..0ac75ba6e5 100644
--- a/rewatch/src/config.rs
+++ b/rewatch/src/config.rs
@@ -311,6 +311,9 @@ pub struct Config {
     // Used by the VS Code extension; ignored by rewatch but should not emit warnings.
     // Payload is not validated here, only in the VS Code extension.
     pub editor: Option<serde_json::Value>,
+    // Used by rescript-tools reanalyze; ignored by rewatch but should not emit warnings.
+    // Payload is not validated here, only in reanalyze.
+    pub reanalyze: Option<serde_json::Value>,
     // this is a new feature of rewatch, and it's not part of the rescript.json spec
     #[serde(rename = "namespace-entry")]
     pub namespace_entry: Option<String>,
@@ -718,7 +721,6 @@ impl Config {
             "pp-flags",
             "entries",
             "bs-external-includes",
-            "reanalyze",
         ];
 
         let top_level = field.split(|c| ['.', '['].contains(&c)).next().unwrap_or(field);
@@ -808,6 +810,7 @@ pub mod tests {
             gentype_config: None,
             js_post_build: None,
             editor: None,
+            reanalyze: None,
             namespace_entry: None,
             deprecation_warnings: vec![],
             experimental_features: None,