reconquest
"reconquest" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reconquest” is uncommon English (frequency #88,769 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,769
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act or process of conquering something again, such as a territory.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reconquest · reconquest · English
reconquest · rank #88,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,769
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH recommence
Nearest frequency peer: recommence (-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 “reconquest”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reassembly
reassembly
11,237 corpus weight
- recertifica…
recertification
11,235 corpus weight
- recommence
recommence
11,234 corpus weight
- reconquest
reconquest
11,232 corpus weight
- reet
reet
11,230 corpus weight
- remount
remount
11,226 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reconquest” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reconquest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reconquest” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reconquest is uncommon English at frequency #88,769 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act or process of conquering something again, such as a territory.".
No misspelling variants are generated for reconquest in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From re- + conquest (noun), probably after either the verb and reconquer, or Middle French reconquest, reconqueste (modern French reconquête). The correct English form is reconquest, spelled R-E-C-O-N-Q-U-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1The act or process of conquering something again, such as a territory.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reconquest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the reconquest of Spain
On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domai…
Etymology
From re- + conquest (noun), probably after either the verb and reconquer, or Middle French reconquest, reconqueste (modern French reconquête).
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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