rine
verb, noun
rine is a verb meaning “To concern; affect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-N-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does rine mean?
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo touch.
- 2
UKTo concern; affect.
- 3
UKTo pertain to; fall to.
- 4
UKTo tend to a certain effect or outcome.
noun
- 1
UKA watercourse or ditch.
- 2
Alternative form of rind.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rine?
Rine 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).
Forms of rine
- rines present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- rining participle, present
- rined participle, past
- rhine
- rone
- rune
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rine?
Rine appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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 rine come from?
From Middle English rinen, from Old English hrīnan, from Proto-West Germanic *hrīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hrīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to strip, touch”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).