rehashing
"rehashing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rehashing” is uncommon English (frequency #76,265 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,265
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is rehashed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rehashing · rehashing · English
rehashing · rank #76,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,265
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Reichenbach
Nearest frequency peer: Reichenbach (+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 “rehashing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- recitative
recitative
23,743 corpus weight
- rectus
rectus
23,741 corpus weight
- reformat
reformat
23,738 corpus weight
- rehashing
rehashing
23,736 corpus weight
- Reichenbach
Reichenbach
23,735 corpus weight
- retouch
retouch
23,728 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rehashing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rehashing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rehashing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rehashing is uncommon English at frequency #76,265 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act by which something is rehashed.".
rehashing doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 rehashing, spelled R-E-H-A-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is rehashed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rehashing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
tired rehashings of old themes
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).