reined
/ɹeɪnd/
"reined" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reined” is uncommon English (frequency #66,981 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,981
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of rein
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reined |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹeɪnd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “reined” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
reined is uncommon English at frequency #66,981 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɹeɪnd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of rein".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for reined, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is reined, spelled R-E-I-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of rein
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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Using “reined”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-I-N-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.