reining
/ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/
"reining" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reining” is uncommon English (frequency #61,763 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,763
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of rein
Corpus desk
Index EN-reining · reining · English
reining · rank #61,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,763
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Renwick
Nearest frequency peer: Renwick (+2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “reining”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reconstitute
reconstitute
38,245 corpus weight
- reconstitut…
reconstitution
38,244 corpus weight
- reining
reining
38,238 corpus weight
- Renwick
Renwick
38,236 corpus weight
- restatement
restatement
38,232 corpus weight
- restive
restive
38,231 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reining” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reining |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reining” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reining is uncommon English at frequency #61,763 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈɹeɪnɪŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of rein".
No misspelling variants are generated for reining in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is reining, spelled R-E-I-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund 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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