rehydrate
"rehydrate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rehydrate” is uncommon English (frequency #75,350 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,350
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To resupply with water that has been removed or lost; to moisten something that has dried.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rehydrate · rehydrate · English
rehydrate · rank #75,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,350
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH refried
Nearest frequency peer: refried (-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 “rehydrate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- recriminati…
recrimination
24,655 corpus weight
- refried
refried
24,652 corpus weight
- rehydrate
rehydrate
24,651 corpus weight
- rejoinder
rejoinder
24,650 corpus weight
- repairer
repairer
24,649 corpus weight
- reperfusion
reperfusion
24,647 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rehydrate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rehydrate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rehydrate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rehydrate is uncommon English at frequency #75,350 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To resupply with water that has been removed or lost; to moisten something that has dried.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rehydrate in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From re- + hydrate. The correct English form is rehydrate, spelled R-E-H-Y-D-R-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To resupply with water that has been removed or lost; to moisten something that has dried.
Etymology
From re- + hydrate.
This word in other languages
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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