rei
"rei" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rei” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,881) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,881
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Portuguese real
Corpus desk
Index EN-rei · rei · English
rei · rank #24,881 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,881
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reels
Nearest frequency peer: reels (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “rei”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- readership
readership
75,124 corpus weight
- reciting
reciting
75,122 corpus weight
- reels
reels
75,121 corpus weight
- rei
rei
75,120 corpus weight
- relinquish
relinquish
75,119 corpus weight
- resolute
resolute
75,117 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “rei” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rei |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “rei”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for rei is neighbouring look-alikes ("RS", "RT", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #24,881 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Gloss: "A Portuguese real".
rei doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RS", "RT", "RM", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Incorrect back-formation of Portuguese plural réis. The correct singular is real. The correct English form is rei, spelled R-E-I.
Definition
- 1A Portuguese real
Etymology
Incorrect back-formation of Portuguese plural réis. The correct singular is real.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rei", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).