rehire
"rehire" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rehire” is uncommon English (frequency #71,841 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,841
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To hire again.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rehire · rehire · English
rehire · rank #71,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,841
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reheating
Nearest frequency peer: reheating (-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 “rehire”
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 “rehire” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rehire |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rehire” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rehire is uncommon English at frequency #71,841 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To hire again.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rehire in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From re- + hire. The correct English form is rehire, spelled R-E-H-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1To hire again.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rehire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There are many upsides to rehiring former employees, according to management professor Peter Cappelli of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. The positives include savings on recruiting and training costs, maintaining associations between customers and employees, and the fact that the rehired employee doesn't need an introduction t…
The National Labor Relations Board petitioned in federal court to force Starbucks (SBUX) to rehire three workers who claimed the coffee chain retaliated against them for attempting to unionize.
Etymology
From re- + hire.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).