raining
/ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/noun, verb
raining is spelled R-A-I-N-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 5.2 times per million words in written English, the 10,843rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, raining means “A fall of rain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of raining is rainings.
How many letters and syllables are in raining?
| Letters | 7: R-A-I-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.2 times per million words; the 10,843rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is raining?
Raining appears 5.2 times per million words in written English, the 10,843rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce raining?
- /ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/
Raining has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-raining.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with raining
Sounds like: reigning (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with raining?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as raining.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ingrain.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of raining
- rainings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does raining mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A fall of rain.
It was raining heavily.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of rain
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).