Rea
/ɹeɪ/
"rea" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rea” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,432) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,432
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rea · Rea · English
Rea · rank #19,432 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,432
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH raja
Nearest frequency peer: raja (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “Rea”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- raider
raider
80,572 corpus weight
- rained
rained
80,571 corpus weight
- raja
raja
80,570 corpus weight
- Rea
Rea
80,569 corpus weight
- reasoned
reasoned
80,568 corpus weight
- rebate
rebate
80,567 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Rea” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rea |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɹeɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Rea”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Rea is neighbouring look-alikes ("RS", "RT", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced /ɹeɪ/. Frequency #19,432 among 3,094 “R” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Rea, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RS", "RT", "RM", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Rea, spelled R-E-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name.
- 2A surname.
- 3A minor city in Andrew County, Missouri, United States.
- 4A river flowing through the city of Birmingham, West Midlands, England, which flows into the River Tame; in full, River Rea.
- 5A river in Shropshire and co/Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Teme; in full, River Rea.
- 6A river in Fiordland, Southland region, New Zealand, which flows into Bradshaw Sound; in full, Rea River.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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