rainwater
"rainwater" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rainwater” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,056
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rainfall.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rainwater · rainwater · English
rainwater · rank #29,056 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,056
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rebounding
Nearest frequency peer: rebounding (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “rainwater”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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quell
70,949 corpus weight
- racecourse
racecourse
70,947 corpus weight
- rainwater
rainwater
70,945 corpus weight
- rebounding
rebounding
70,944 corpus weight
- reflector
reflector
70,943 corpus weight
- regimental
regimental
70,942 corpus weight
What this shows “rainwater” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rainwater |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rainwater”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around rainwater, anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,056 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for rainwater, with forms such as "arinwater", "rainawter", and "rainnwater". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English reinwater, from Old English reġnwæter, equivalent to rain + water. Cognate with West Frisian reinwetter, Dutch regenwater, German Regenwasser, Swedish regnvatten. The correct English form is rainwater, spelled R-A-I-N-W-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rainfall.
- 2Water (for a house, etc.) sourced from rain which has not joined a spring, stream or river, pond, lake or sea.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rainwater appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In early December, as rainwaters had started the monthlong process of flooding mines and washing out rail lines, workers lined up before 1 p.m. at an easy-to-miss storefront depot in Mackay.
Constructed of hard flint stone, which came as ballast from England and is now painted coral white, the house has a fishpond, or catchment, roof, dating from 1788, to collect rainwater.
Etymology
From Middle English reinwater, from Old English reġnwæter, equivalent to rain + water. Cognate with West Frisian reinwetter, Dutch regenwater, German Regenwasser, Swedish regnvatten.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arinwater
- rainawter
- rainnwater
- rainwaetr
- rainwaterr
- rainwatre
- rainwatter
- rainwtaer
- rainwwater
- raiwnater
- raniwater
- rianwater
- rrainwater
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rainwater - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).