rains
\ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“rains” is uncommon French (frequency #59,571 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,571
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rains · rains · French
rains · rank #59,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,571
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raffiner
Nearest frequency peer: raffiner (-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 « rains »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rabats
rabats
40,433 corpus weight
- raclures
raclures
40,432 corpus weight
- raffiner
raffiner
40,431 corpus weight
- rains
rains
40,430 corpus weight
- rainure
rainure
40,429 corpus weight
- rajoutés
rajoutés
40,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rains » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rains » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rains is uncommon French at frequency #59,571 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rain.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rains in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rains, spelled R-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rain.
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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