rains
/ɹeɪnz/noun, verb
rains is spelled R-A-I-N-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rains means “A rainy season; monsoon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in rains?
| Letters | 5: R-A-I-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.9 times per million words; the 9,045th 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 rains?
Rains appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th 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 rains?
- /ɹeɪnz/
Rains has one syllable (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: En-us-rains.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-rains.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with rains
Sounds like: reins (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with rains?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as rains.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sarin, nasri, arnis, naris.
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).
What does rains mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A rainy season; monsoon
The rains came early this year.
- 2
plural of rain
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of rain
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).