repetitious
/ɹɛpəˈtɪʃəs/
"repetitious" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“repetitious” is uncommon English (frequency #72,709 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,709
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Characterized by repetition, especially excessive repetition.
Corpus desk
Index EN-repetitious · repetitious · English
repetitious · rank #72,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,709
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH repackaging
Nearest frequency peer: repackaging (-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 “repetitious”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- regula
regula
27,295 corpus weight
- repackaging
repackaging
27,293 corpus weight
- repetitious
repetitious
27,292 corpus weight
- respec
respec
27,290 corpus weight
- reverently
reverently
27,289 corpus weight
- riboflavin
riboflavin
27,287 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “repetitious” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repetitious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɹɛpəˈtɪʃəs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #72,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “repetitious” in English
Rare enough to double-check
repetitious is uncommon English at frequency #72,709 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɹɛpəˈtɪʃəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Characterized by repetition, especially excessive repetition.".
Zero misspellings are on record for repetitious in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 repetitious, spelled R-E-P-E-T-I-T-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Characterized by repetition, especially excessive repetition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how repetitious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: tedious; see also Thesaurus:wearisome
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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