redress
/ɹɪˈdɹɛs/
"redress" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“redress” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,968. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,968
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
Corpus desk
Index EN-redress · redress · English
redress · rank #23,968 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,968
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH regenerate
Nearest frequency peer: regenerate (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “redress”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ravine
ravine
76,036 corpus weight
- raving
raving
76,035 corpus weight
- redress
redress
76,033 corpus weight
- regenerate
regenerate
76,032 corpus weight
- reigned
reigned
76,031 corpus weight
- reincarnati…
reincarnation
76,030 corpus weight
What this shows “redress” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | redress |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “redress”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around redress (IPA /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,968 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for redress, with forms such as "erdress", "rderess", and "reddress". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "refresh", "repress", "regress", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English redressen, from Anglo-Norman radresser, redrescer, redrescier and Middle French redresser (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again; to rebuild, to repair something damaged, to rectify, to restore; to obtain redress; to cur… The correct English form is redress, spelled R-E-D-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
- 2To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- 3To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- 4To put upright again; to restore.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how redress appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Let us divide our labours; thou, where choice / Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour, or direct / The clasping ivy where to climb; while I, / In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon: […]
Sir; When last in Philadelphia, you mentioned to me your wish that I should re-dress a certain paper, which you had prepared. As it is important, that a thing of this kind should be done with great care, and much at leisure, touched and retouched, I submit a wish, that, as soon as you have given it the body you mean it to have, it may be sent to me.
Etymology
From Middle English redressen, from Anglo-Norman radresser, redrescer, redrescier and Middle French redresser (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again; to rebuild, to repair something damaged, to rectify, to restore; to obtain redress; to cure; (of hair) to stand on end; to revise a judgment”) (modern French redresser), from Old French redrecier (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again”), from Old French re- (“again, once more”) (from Latin re-, from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + Old French drechier, drecier, dresser (“to dress; to stand up”) (from Vulgar Latin *drēctiāre, a contracted form of *dīrēctiāre, from Latin dīrēctus (“straight”)). Compare Catalan redreçar, Spanish redreçar (obsolete), Italian redreçare, redrezare, redricciare, ridirizzare (all obsolete), ridrizzare, Late Latin redressare (“to repair; to set right”), Old Occitan redreisar, redresar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erdress
- rderess
- reddress
- rederss
- redres
- redrress
- redrses
- rerdess
- rredress
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of redress - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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