reddening
"reddening" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reddening” is uncommon English (frequency #94,175 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,175
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act or process of becoming red or redder.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reddening · reddening · English
reddening · rank #94,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,175
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rebook
Nearest frequency peer: rebook (-1 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 “reddening”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ratepayer
ratepayer
5,832 corpus weight
- ravin
ravin
5,831 corpus weight
- rebook
rebook
5,827 corpus weight
- reddening
reddening
5,826 corpus weight
- redrew
redrew
5,822 corpus weight
- redwing
redwing
5,820 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reddening” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reddening |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reddening” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reddening is uncommon English at frequency #94,175 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act or process of becoming red or redder.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for reddening, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is reddening, spelled R-E-D-D-E-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act or process of becoming red or redder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reddening appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The cold weather caused some cheek reddening and some nose running.
There was some noticeable reddening in her cheeks when she had been drinking.
Antonyms
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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