Reigate
/ˈɹaɪɡeɪt/
"reigate" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Reigate” is uncommon English (frequency #66,980 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,980
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A market town in, and the administrative headquarters of, Surrey, England.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reigate · Reigate · English
Reigate · rank #66,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,980
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rehydration
Nearest frequency peer: rehydration (-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 “Reigate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reevaluation
reevaluation
33,024 corpus weight
- regulus
regulus
33,023 corpus weight
- rehydration
rehydration
33,022 corpus weight
- Reigate
Reigate
33,021 corpus weight
- reined
reined
33,020 corpus weight
- rekindling
rekindling
33,018 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Reigate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Reigate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹaɪɡeɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Reigate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Reigate is uncommon English at frequency #66,980 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈɹaɪɡeɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A market town in, and the administrative headquarters of, Surrey, England.".
Reigate doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is Reigate, spelled R-E-I-G-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1A market town in, and the administrative headquarters of, Surrey, England.
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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