with respect to
"with-respect-to" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“with respect to” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a preposition - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Regarding; concerning; pertaining to.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | with respect to |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “with respect to” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for with respect to is 15 letters long, classified as a preposition. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for with respect to in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 with respect to, spelled W-I-T-H- -R-E-S-P-E-C-T- -T-O.
Definition
- 1Regarding; concerning; pertaining to.
- 2Taking as the independent variable.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “with respect to”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-I-T-H- -R-E-S-P-E-C-T- -T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.