right as rain

adj

"right-as-rain" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“right as rain” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Very good; all in order; healthy.

Corpus desk

Index EN-right-as-rain · right as rain · English

right as rain · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "R" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for right as rain
PropertyValue
Headwordright as rain
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “right as rain” in English

right as rainranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

right as rain is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for right as rain, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is right as rain, spelled R-I-G-H-T- -A-S- -R-A-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Very good; all in order; healthy.
  2. 2
    Correct; factually accurate.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how right as rain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. So I went to him [Thackeray d. 1863] while he was at breakfast in Onslow Square, on the morning of the banquet, and asked him if the speech was “all right.” “As right as rain,” he replied.
  2. ‘I’ve just made the rounds,’ he said, ‘and everything looks as right as rain.’

Synonyms

right as a trivetright as ninepencerighter than rain

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "right as rain"?
"right as rain" is spelled R-I-G-H-T- -A-S- -R-A-I-N.
What does "right as rain" mean?
As an adjective, "right as rain" means: Very good; all in order; healthy.
What language does "right as rain" come from?
"right as rain" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list