raina
\ʁɛ.na\
The verdict
“raina” is uncommon French (frequency #87,074 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,074
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rainer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raina · raina · French
raina · rank #87,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,074
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ragondin
Nearest frequency peer: ragondin (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « raina »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- raffles
raffles
12,930 corpus weight
- raflent
raflent
12,929 corpus weight
- ragondin
ragondin
12,928 corpus weight
- raina
raina
12,927 corpus weight
- rajoutons
rajoutons
12,926 corpus weight
- rambuteau
rambuteau
12,925 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛ.na\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raina » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raina is uncommon French at frequency #87,074 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɛ.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rainer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for raina, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is raina, spelled R-A-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rainer.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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