reacts
"reacts" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reacts” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,591. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,591
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of react
Corpus desk
Index EN-reacts · reacts · English
reacts · rank #13,591 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,591
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH purge
Nearest frequency peer: purge (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “reacts”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- pretended
pretended
86,413 corpus weight
- procession
procession
86,412 corpus weight
- purge
purge
86,411 corpus weight
- reacts
reacts
86,410 corpus weight
- relocation
relocation
86,409 corpus weight
- rhino
rhino
86,408 corpus weight
What this shows “reacts” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | reacts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “reacts”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around reacts, averb. Corpus frequency is #13,591 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of react".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for reacts, with forms such as "eracts", "raects", and "reaccts". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "reads", "rests", "reams", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is reacts, spelled R-E-A-C-T-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of react
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reacts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich The annellation of the pyrimidine ring onto alicyclic alkenes has been achieved using Diels-Alder chemistry. 2,4-Dimethoxy-1,3-diazaanthracene (DDA) reacts with Smith’s diene under forcing thermal conditions (sealed tube at 180 °C) to form a mixture of stereoisomeric adducts which can be separated…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eracts
- raects
- reaccts
- reacst
- reactss
- reactts
- reatcs
- recats
- rreacts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reacts - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).