ren
/ɹɛn/noun
ren is spelled R-E-N: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ren means “A kidney” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ren is renes or rens.
How many letters and syllables are in ren?
| Letters | 3: R-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.9 times per million words; the 15,798th 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 ren?
Ren appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th 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 ren?
- /ɹɛn/
- /ɹiːn/
Ren 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).
Words people confuse with ren
Sounds like: wren (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with ren?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ren.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ner, ern.
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).
Forms of ren
- renes plural
- rens plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ren mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A kidney.
- 2
One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.
- 3
slangA non-binary parent.
noun
- 1
Initialism of ringer equivalence number.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does ren come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin rēn. Doublet of rein (“kidney”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).