rainer
\ʁe.ne\
The verdict
“rainer” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,452. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,452
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire une rainure dans (quelque chose).
Corpus desk
Index FR-rainer · rainer · French
rainer · rank #40,452 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,452
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rafler
Nearest frequency peer: rafler (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rainer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- raccorder
raccorder
59,552 corpus weight
- radiale
radiale
59,551 corpus weight
- rafler
rafler
59,550 corpus weight
- rainer
rainer
59,549 corpus weight
- rajeunissem…
rajeunissement
59,548 corpus weight
- rancunier
rancunier
59,546 corpus weight
What this shows « rainer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rainer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.ne\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rainer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rainer (IPA \ʁe.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,452 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rainer, with forms such as "ariner", "raienr", and "rainerr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "reine", "rater", "river", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rainer, spelled R-A-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire une rainure dans (quelque chose).
- 2Faire une rainure dans une pièce de bois en utilisant un bouvet.
- 3Pour faciliter le pliage, faire une rainure sur du papier ou du carton en utilisant une presse spéciale.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ariner
- raienr
- rainerr
- rainner
- rainre
- ranier
- rianer
- rrainer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rainer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rainer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).