repeat offender
"repeat-offender" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“repeat offender” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person who has previously offended against the law, often someone who may be deemed incorrigible.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repeat offender |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “repeat offender” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
repeat offender is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for repeat offender in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is repeat offender, spelled R-E-P-E-A-T- -O-F-F-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who has previously offended against the law, often someone who may be deemed incorrigible.
- 2One who performs a specific (often undesirable) action on multiple occasions.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “repeat offender”
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- The one correct English spelling is R-E-P-E-A-T- -O-F-F-E-N-D-E-R - 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.