retelling
"retelling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“retelling” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,940
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A new, changed, or adapted version of a story.
Corpus desk
Index EN-retelling · retelling · English
retelling · rank #30,940 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,940
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reuniting
Nearest frequency peer: reuniting (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “retelling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- redness
redness
69,064 corpus weight
- retelling
retelling
69,061 corpus weight
- reuniting
reuniting
69,060 corpus weight
- Roh
Roh
69,058 corpus weight
- saba
saba
69,056 corpus weight
- sabbatical
sabbatical
69,055 corpus weight
What this shows “retelling” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retelling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “retelling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around retelling, anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,940 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A new, changed, or adapted version of a story.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for retelling, with forms such as "ertelling", "reetlling", and "retelilng". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "revealing", "reeling", "recalling", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is retelling, spelled R-E-T-E-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A new, changed, or adapted version of a story.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retelling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The new film is a needless retelling of what was already a cinematic classic.
Like those of other saints, Mira Bai's life story lies within a number of retellings, each more detailed than the last, so that her biography now includes burnishings that probably would not pass any historian's test.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertelling
- reetlling
- retelilng
- reteling
- retellign
- retellingg
- retellinng
- retellnig
- retleling
- rettelling
- rretelling
- rteelling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retelling - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "retelling", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).