rebuilding
"rebuilding" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rebuilding” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #11,095 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #11,095
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of building something again.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rebuilding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rebuilding” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for rebuilding is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #11,095 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The act of building something again.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for rebuilding, with forms such as "erbuilding", "rbeuilding", and "rebbuilding". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 rebuilding, spelled R-E-B-U-I-L-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of building something again.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erbuilding,rbeuilding,rebbuilding,rebiulding,rebuidling,rebuildding,rebuildign,rebuildingg,rebuildinng,rebuildnig,rebuilidng,rebuillding,rebuliding,reubilding,rrebuilding
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rebuilding - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “rebuilding”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-B-U-I-L-D-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.