retrial
"retrial" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“retrial” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,848. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,848
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A second trial, by the original court, if the original trial was found to be improper, unfair, or no verdict was reached by a jury.
Corpus desk
Index EN-retrial · retrial · English
retrial · rank #41,848 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,848
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reproducible
Nearest frequency peer: reproducible (-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 “retrial”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- remaster
remaster
58,157 corpus weight
- reposting
reposting
58,155 corpus weight
- reproducible
reproducible
58,154 corpus weight
- retrial
retrial
58,153 corpus weight
- Ricciardo
Ricciardo
58,152 corpus weight
- rippling
rippling
58,151 corpus weight
What this shows “retrial” 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 | retrial |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “retrial”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around retrial, anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,848 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A second trial, by the original court, if the original trial was found to be improper, unfair, or no verdict was reached by a jury.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for retrial, with forms such as "ertrial", "rertial", and "retiral". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "retrieval", "retail", "retreat", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From re- + trial. The correct English form is retrial, spelled R-E-T-R-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1A second trial, by the original court, if the original trial was found to be improper, unfair, or no verdict was reached by a jury.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how retrial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No evidence was offered by the Crown against Driver Trew when he stood his retrial on May 7.
He maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal - which means a retrial and the conviction being set aside in the meantime
Etymology
From re- + trial.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertrial
- rertial
- retiral
- retrail
- retriall
- retrila
- retrrial
- rettrial
- rretrial
- rterial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retrial - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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