reall
"reall" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reall” is uncommon English (frequency #86,682 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,682
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of real.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reall · reall · English
reall · rank #86,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,682
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH recognizably
Nearest frequency peer: recognizably (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “reall”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ramanujan
Ramanujan
13,325 corpus weight
- reall
reall
13,319 corpus weight
- recognizably
recognizably
13,318 corpus weight
- recordable
recordable
13,317 corpus weight
- rediculous
rediculous
13,316 corpus weight
- refrigerati…
refrigerating
13,315 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reall” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reall |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reall” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reall is uncommon English at frequency #86,682 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of real.".
reall doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is reall, spelled R-E-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of real.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reall appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Your most worthy Brother Mr Sidney Godolphin, when he lived, was pleas'd to think my studies something, and otherwise to oblige me, as you know, with reall testimonies of his good opinion, great in themselves, and the greater for the worthinesse of his person.
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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