wreakful
"wreakful" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wreakful” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vengeful; angry, furious.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wreakful · wreakful · English
wreakful · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wreakful |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wreakful” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wreakful is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vengeful; angry, furious.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wreakful, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English wrakeful, equivalent to wreak + -ful. The correct English form is wreakful, spelled W-R-E-A-K-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1Vengeful; angry, furious.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wreakful appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne any liv'd on ground that durst withstand / His dreadfull heast, much lesse him match in fight, / Or bide the horror of his wreakfull hand […].
He sinks, to every wreakful fiend a prey; / His bosom shut to each affection kind; …
Etymology
From Middle English wrakeful, equivalent to wreak + -ful.
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.