retooling
/ɹiːˈtuːlɪŋ/
"retooling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“retooling” is uncommon English (frequency #74,451 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,451
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of retool
Corpus desk
Index EN-retooling · retooling · English
retooling · rank #74,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,451
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rescission
Nearest frequency peer: rescission (-4 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 “retooling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- recommit
recommit
25,561 corpus weight
- repetitively
repetitively
25,556 corpus weight
- repossess
repossess
25,555 corpus weight
- rescission
rescission
25,554 corpus weight
- retooling
retooling
25,550 corpus weight
- Rhona
Rhona
25,546 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “retooling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retooling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹiːˈtuːlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “retooling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
retooling is uncommon English at frequency #74,451 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɹiːˈtuːlɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of retool".
retooling has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From retool + -ing. The correct English form is retooling, spelled R-E-T-O-O-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of retool
Etymology
From retool + -ing.
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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