raines
\ʁɛn\
The verdict
“raines” is uncommon French (frequency #72,660 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,660
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de raine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raines · raines · French
raines · rank #72,660 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,660
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rainette
Nearest frequency peer: rainette (+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 « raines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Radegonde
Radegonde
27,343 corpus weight
- raines
raines
27,341 corpus weight
- rainette
rainette
27,340 corpus weight
- rajouterais
rajouterais
27,339 corpus weight
- ramènerai
ramènerai
27,338 corpus weight
- rangeait
rangeait
27,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « raines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raines is uncommon French at frequency #72,660 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de raine.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for raines, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is raines, spelled R-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de raine.
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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