reoffending
"reoffending" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reoffending” is uncommon English (frequency #95,338 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,338
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of reoffend
| 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) |
Where “reoffending” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
reoffending is uncommon English at frequency #95,338 among 21,470 “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
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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Using “reoffending”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-O-F-F-E-N-D-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.