reoffending
"reoffending" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reoffending” is uncommon English (frequency #95,338 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,338
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of reoffend
Corpus desk
Index EN-reoffending · reoffending · English
reoffending · rank #95,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,338
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH repayable
Nearest frequency peer: repayable (+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 “reoffending”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- recoiling
recoiling
4,670 corpus weight
- refi
refi
4,666 corpus weight
- reoffending
reoffending
4,663 corpus weight
- repayable
repayable
4,662 corpus weight
- resolver
resolver
4,659 corpus weight
- Riegel
Riegel
4,656 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reoffending” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reoffending |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #95,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reoffending” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reoffending is uncommon English at frequency #95,338 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of reoffend".
No generated misspelling entries exist for reoffending in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 reoffending, spelled R-E-O-F-F-E-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of reoffend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reoffending appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the review of Cheung’s bail status on March 15, Senior Counsel Lawrence Lok mentioned the pregnancy of Cheung’s wife as one of the reasons why the activist had “minimal chances” of re-offending or continuing to offend against the Beijing-imposed security law.
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
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