as regards

prep

"as-regards" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“as regards” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - regarding, concerning

Corpus desk

Index EN-as-regards · as regards · English

as regards · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for as regards
PropertyValue
Headwordas regards
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechPreposition
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “as regards” in English

as regardsranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

as regards is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as apreposition. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "regarding, concerning".

Zero misspellings are on record for as regards in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is as regards, spelled A-S- -R-E-G-A-R-D-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    regarding, concerning

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how as regards appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. As regards too our Indian possessions, the idea of any thing being feared from Russia in that quarter, at however distant a period, is treated by the politicians of the day as an idle mockery...

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "as regards"?
"as regards" is spelled A-S- -R-E-G-A-R-D-S.
What does "as regards" mean?
As a preposition, "as regards" means: regarding, concerning
What language does "as regards" come from?
"as regards" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list