repressing
"repressing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“repressing” is uncommon English (frequency #50,769 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,769
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A second or subsequent pressing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-repressing · repressing · English
repressing · rank #50,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,769
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rhetorically
Nearest frequency peer: rhetorically (+2 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 “repressing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reauthoriza…
reauthorization
49,238 corpus weight
- reconvene
reconvene
49,237 corpus weight
- recuse
recuse
49,236 corpus weight
- repressing
repressing
49,232 corpus weight
- rhetorically
rhetorically
49,230 corpus weight
- Rhodesian
Rhodesian
49,229 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “repressing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repressing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “repressing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
repressing is uncommon English at frequency #50,769 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A second or subsequent pressing.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for repressing in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is repressing, spelled R-E-P-R-E-S-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A second or subsequent pressing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how repressing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
repressings of a vinyl record
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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