redaction
/ɹəˈdækʃən/
"redaction" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“redaction” is uncommon English (frequency #67,782 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,782
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An edited or censored version of a document; a product resulting from the process of editing or censoring.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | redaction |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹəˈdækʃən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “redaction” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
redaction is uncommon English at frequency #67,782 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹəˈdækʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for redaction, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French rédaction or its etymon New Latin redactiō (“redaction”), from Latin redigō (“to lead back, collect, prepare, reduce to a certain state”), from red- (“back”) + agō (“to put in motion, to drive”). By surface analysis, redact + -ion. The correct English form is redaction, spelled R-E-D-A-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1An edited or censored version of a document; a product resulting from the process of editing or censoring.
- 2The change or changes made while editing.
- 3The process of editing or censoring.
Etymology
From French rédaction or its etymon New Latin redactiō (“redaction”), from Latin redigō (“to lead back, collect, prepare, reduce to a certain state”), from red- (“back”) + agō (“to put in motion, to drive”). By surface analysis, redact + -ion.
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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Using “redaction”
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- The one correct English spelling is R-E-D-A-C-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.