rebuking
"rebuking" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rebuking” is uncommon English (frequency #73,575 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,575
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of giving a rebuke.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rebuking · rebuking · English
rebuking · rank #73,575 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,575
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rawat
Nearest frequency peer: Rawat (-2 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 “rebuking”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Rawat
Rawat
26,428 corpus weight
- rebuking
rebuking
26,426 corpus weight
- recapitulat…
recapitulation
26,424 corpus weight
- recce
recce
26,423 corpus weight
- reclassify
reclassify
26,422 corpus weight
- recreationa…
recreationally
26,421 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rebuking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rebuking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rebuking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rebuking is uncommon English at frequency #73,575 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of giving a rebuke.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rebuking, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is rebuking, spelled R-E-B-U-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of giving a rebuke.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rebuking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But the more the rebukings of God met thine ear, / Thou, freed from the terror, didst love Him the more; / And what in the vile only kindles up fear, / Led thee, in thy holiness, Him to adore.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).