reentering
"reentering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reentering” is uncommon English (frequency #84,669 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,669
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of reentrant (“pointing inward”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-reentering · reentering · English
reentering · rank #84,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,669
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reductionism
Nearest frequency peer: reductionism (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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Long-tail ranks near “reentering”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- redlining
redlining
15,334 corpus weight
- reductionism
reductionism
15,333 corpus weight
- reentering
reentering
15,332 corpus weight
- reestablish…
reestablishment
15,331 corpus weight
- refracting
refracting
15,329 corpus weight
- regio
regio
15,328 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reentering” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reentering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reentering” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reentering is uncommon English at frequency #84,669 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of reentrant (“pointing inward”).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for reentering in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is reentering, spelled R-E-E-N-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Synonym of reentrant (“pointing inward”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reentering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a polygon with a reentering angle
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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