repining
"repining" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“repining” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repining |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “repining” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
repining is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.".
Zero misspellings are on record for repining in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is repining, spelled R-E-P-I-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.
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 “repining”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-P-I-N-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.