reheating
"reheating" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reheating” is uncommon English (frequency #71,840 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,840
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of making something hot again.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reheating · reheating · English
reheating · rank #71,840 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,840
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Redhill
Nearest frequency peer: Redhill (-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 “reheating”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- recirculati…
recirculation
28,164 corpus weight
- recto
recto
28,163 corpus weight
- Redhill
Redhill
28,162 corpus weight
- reheating
reheating
28,161 corpus weight
- rehire
rehire
28,160 corpus weight
- reincarnate
reincarnate
28,159 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reheating” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reheating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reheating” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reheating is uncommon English at frequency #71,840 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of making something hot again.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for reheating, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is reheating, spelled R-E-H-E-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of making something hot again.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reheating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The crucible was subjected to several reheatings.
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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