rehearing
"rehearing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rehearing” is uncommon English (frequency #80,805 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,805
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A second or subsequent hearing of a case.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rehearing · rehearing · English
rehearing · rank #80,805 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,805
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH regius
Nearest frequency peer: regius (-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 “rehearing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- recency
recency
19,202 corpus weight
- recusal
recusal
19,200 corpus weight
- regius
regius
19,197 corpus weight
- rehearing
rehearing
19,196 corpus weight
- resend
resend
19,191 corpus weight
- resoundingly
resoundingly
19,190 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rehearing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rehearing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rehearing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rehearing is uncommon English at frequency #80,805 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A second or subsequent hearing of a case.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rehearing in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is rehearing, spelled R-E-H-E-A-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A second or subsequent hearing of a case.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rehearing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Supreme Court is still considering a request for a rehearing of that case and may modify their decision.
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).