rean
noun
rean is a noun meaning “A deep furrow used for drainage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-A-N, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rean is reans.
What does rean mean?
noun
- 1
A deep furrow used for drainage.
- 2
A ridge or baulk.
- 3
A gutter.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rean
- reans plural
- reann
- reen
- reene
- rheen
- raen
- raheen
- rain
- rane
- rayne
- reang
- reayne
- reean
- reend
- rheaan
- rhind
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rean?
Rean appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).
Where does rean come from?
From Middle English rene, rein (“strip of land forming a boundary; furrow; barrier; embankment”), from Old Norse rein (“a strip of land”), from Proto-Germanic *rainō (“baulk, ridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to cut, tear, scratch”). Related to Icelandic rein, Danish ren, Dutch rein, reen (“berm”), German Rain (“narrow strip of land between two fields”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).