rewinding
"rewinding" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rewinding” is uncommon English (frequency #62,456 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,456
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act or process by which something is rewound.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rewinding · rewinding · English
rewinding · rank #62,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,456
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH revolutionise
Nearest frequency peer: revolutionise (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “rewinding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Reuss
Reuss
37,548 corpus weight
- revocable
revocable
37,547 corpus weight
- revolutioni…
revolutionise
37,546 corpus weight
- rewinding
rewinding
37,545 corpus weight
- Riedel
Riedel
37,543 corpus weight
- Rimini
Rimini
37,542 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rewinding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rewinding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rewinding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rewinding is uncommon English at frequency #62,456 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for rewinding in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is rewinding, spelled R-E-W-I-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act or process by which something is rewound.
- 2A set of replacement coils on an electric motor or other device that uses wound wires to generate a magnetic field.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rewinding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Crookes tube has accordingly been modified until it is no longer a new-fangled burning glass: motors, coils, rewindings, regulators and transformers have been interposed between the street current and the tube[…]
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).