reawakening

noun

"reawakening" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“reawakening” is uncommon English (frequency #78,991 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,991
frequency rank, English
3,094
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A second or subsequent awakening.

Corpus desk

Index EN-reawakening · reawakening · English

reawakening · rank #78,991 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,991
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,094
  • PHOTO-FINISH recalculate

Nearest frequency peer: recalculate (+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 “reawakening”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “reawakening” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for reawakening
PropertyValue
Headwordreawakening
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#78,991
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “reawakening” in English

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).reawakeningfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Rare peers in the same band: “recalculate” (#78,992), “reaffirmation” (#78,989), “Ravenhill” (#78,988). Among 3,094 “R” headwords, “reawakening” is #78,991. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

reawakening is uncommon English at frequency #78,991 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A second or subsequent awakening.".

reawakening has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is reawakening, spelled R-E-A-W-A-K-E-N-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    A second or subsequent awakening.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Our longings after immortality are sensibly experienced under the solemn views of dissolving nature, and its reawakening at the call of the angel, when this corruptible shall put on incorruptibility, and this mortal immortality, and death, to the sons and daughters of resignation shall be swallowed up in victory.
  2. In several of these patients, who previously had been treated by curetting and lactic acid, and who had been considered as cured, the injection of one or two milligrammes showed that this was not the case, and caused a reawakening of the disease.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reawakening"?
"reawakening" is spelled R-E-A-W-A-K-E-N-I-N-G.
What does "reawakening" mean?
As a noun, "reawakening" means: A second or subsequent awakening.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "reawakening", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list