raine
\ʁen\
The verdict
“raine” is uncommon French (frequency #62,563 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,563
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grenouille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raine · raine · French
raine · rank #62,563 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,563
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH radiales
Nearest frequency peer: radiales (-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 « raine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rabbinique
rabbinique
37,441 corpus weight
- raccourcit
raccourcit
37,440 corpus weight
- radiales
radiales
37,439 corpus weight
- raine
raine
37,438 corpus weight
- rallumé
rallumé
37,437 corpus weight
- Ramatuelle
Ramatuelle
37,436 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁen\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raine is uncommon French at frequency #62,563 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁen\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Grenouille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for raine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is raine, spelled R-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Grenouille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how raine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Raine de buisson.
Raine verte.
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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