remediate
/ɹəˈmiːdieɪt/
"remediate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“remediate” is uncommon English (frequency #83,672 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,672
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To correct or improve (a deficiency or problem).
Corpus desk
Index EN-remediate · remediate · English
remediate · rank #83,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,672
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Redpath
Nearest frequency peer: Redpath (-3 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 “remediate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- receptivity
receptivity
16,335 corpus weight
- reconfigura…
reconfigurable
16,334 corpus weight
- recurve
recurve
16,333 corpus weight
- Redpath
Redpath
16,332 corpus weight
- remediate
remediate
16,329 corpus weight
- Renfro
Renfro
16,326 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “remediate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remediate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹəˈmiːdieɪt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “remediate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
remediate is uncommon English at frequency #83,672 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɹəˈmiːdieɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To correct or improve (a deficiency or problem).".
Zero misspellings are on record for remediate in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin remediare. The correct English form is remediate, spelled R-E-M-E-D-I-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To correct or improve (a deficiency or problem).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how remediate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Network Rail's busy Easter included a ten-day closure of the main trans-Pennine route between Manchester and Leeds, for work to install a new bridge deck at Huddersfield, remediate mining works at Ravensthorpe and Huddersfield, and to lay new track at Deighton and Mirfield.
Etymology
From Latin remediare.
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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