really vs reapply, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“really” is an adverb and “reapply” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#113
“really” frequency rank: #42,364
“reapply” frequency rank: 42477
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	really	reapply
Definition	In a way or manner that is real, not unreal.	To apply again.

Letter map: really vs reapply

Shared letters muted; letters that set really and reapply apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

6 ch

really

7 ch

reapply

Role in the sentence - really and reapply

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: really is anadverb and reapplyaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 42477, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

really is recorded at frequency rank #113, classified as anadv, pronounced /ˈɹɪə.li/. reapply is at rank #42,364, tagged as averb.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 42477, this pair ranks #248,851 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of really vs reapply

Shared letters: aelry. Private to "really": -. Private to "reapply": p.

"really" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV · "reapply" · 7 letters · shape CVVCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

really ← erally · raelly · reallyy · realy · realyl · relaly · rreally
reapply ← erapply · raepply · reaplpy · reaply · reapplly · reapplyy · reappyl · repaply

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "really" for "reapply" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "really" is an adverb and "reapply" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "really" vs "reapply" - which ranks higher?

"really" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #113 in our English list, against #42,364 for "reapply". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "really" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "reapply" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #248,851 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"really" and "reapply" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reapply vs resupply". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #248,851 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.