rediscovery
"rediscovery" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rediscovery” is uncommon English (frequency #52,591 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,591
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of rediscovering.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rediscovery · rediscovery · English
rediscovery · rank #52,591 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,591
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rehash
Nearest frequency peer: rehash (+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 “rediscovery”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- recline
recline
47,413 corpus weight
- rectifier
rectifier
47,412 corpus weight
- rediscovery
rediscovery
47,410 corpus weight
- rehash
rehash
47,409 corpus weight
- reinterpret…
reinterpretation
47,408 corpus weight
- rejuvenating
rejuvenating
47,407 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rediscovery” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rediscovery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rediscovery” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rediscovery is uncommon English at frequency #52,591 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for rediscovery in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From re- + discovery. The correct English form is rediscovery, spelled R-E-D-I-S-C-O-V-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1The act of rediscovering.
- 2A second or subsequent discovery of the same thing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rediscovery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The most important result of Mr. Mercer's work was the rediscovery of the tunnel, which had been buried, although still accessible through the partly blocked southern portal of the second and larger tunnel, built contiguously to the old one, about 1840.
Etymology
From re- + discovery.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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