rekindling
"rekindling" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rekindling” is uncommon English (frequency #66,983 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,983
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of kindling again.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rekindling · rekindling · English
rekindling · rank #66,983 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,983
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reliquary
Nearest frequency peer: reliquary (+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 “rekindling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Reigate
Reigate
33,021 corpus weight
- reined
reined
33,020 corpus weight
- rekindling
rekindling
33,018 corpus weight
- reliquary
reliquary
33,017 corpus weight
- renderer
renderer
33,016 corpus weight
- repopulate
repopulate
33,015 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rekindling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rekindling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rekindling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rekindling is uncommon English at frequency #66,983 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of kindling again.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rekindling, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is rekindling, spelled R-E-K-I-N-D-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of kindling again.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rekindling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
rekindlings of the imagination
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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