reconnection
"reconnection" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reconnection” is uncommon English (frequency #66,235 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,235
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A connection of things that have been previously severed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reconnection · reconnection · English
reconnection · rank #66,235 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,235
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH referent
Nearest frequency peer: referent (+3 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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Long-tail ranks near “reconnection”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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racialized
33,773 corpus weight
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Ramaphosa
33,770 corpus weight
- reconnection
reconnection
33,766 corpus weight
- referent
referent
33,763 corpus weight
- Renta
Renta
33,761 corpus weight
- repenting
repenting
33,760 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reconnection” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reconnection |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #66,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reconnection” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reconnection is uncommon English at frequency #66,235 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A connection of things that have been previously severed.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reconnection, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From re- + connection. The correct English form is reconnection, spelled R-E-C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A connection of things that have been previously severed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reconnection appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I see freight returning in a big way. The 2016 reconnection of the Helwith Bridge quarries can produce up to three heavy trains a day. The nearby and much bigger Horton quarry is also on the cusp of rail reconnection.
Etymology
From re- + connection.
This word in other languages
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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