redraft
"redraft" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“redraft” is uncommon English (frequency #97,484 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,484
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To draft again
Corpus desk
Index EN-redraft · redraft · English
redraft · rank #97,484 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,484
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reawaken
Nearest frequency peer: reawaken (-4 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 “redraft”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- radiograph
radiograph
2,527 corpus weight
- rateable
rateable
2,524 corpus weight
- reawaken
reawaken
2,521 corpus weight
- redraft
redraft
2,517 corpus weight
- relight
relight
2,512 corpus weight
- reproof
reproof
2,509 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “redraft” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | redraft |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “redraft” in English
Rare enough to double-check
redraft is uncommon English at frequency #97,484 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To draft again".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for redraft, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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- + draft. The correct English form is redraft, spelled R-E-D-R-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1To draft again
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how redraft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
maybe the metamorphoses are – as in Adaptation – a comment on the screenwriting process, and the way that characters’ identities are revised as the writer drafts and redrafts the script.
The total collapse of franchising that followed forced Williams and Shapps to redraft a number of the recommendations.
Etymology
From re- + draft.
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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