rainure
\ʁe.nyʁ\
The verdict
“rainure” is uncommon French (frequency #59,572 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,572
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sillon régulier visible sur une surface.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rainure · rainure · French
rainure · rank #59,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,572
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rains
Nearest frequency peer: rains (-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 « rainure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- rancunes
rancunes
40,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rainure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rainure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.nyʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rainure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rainure is uncommon French at frequency #59,572 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.nyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rainure, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rainure, spelled R-A-I-N-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Sillon régulier visible sur une surface.
- 2Petite entaille faite en long sur l’épaisseur d’une pièce mécanique, pour y assembler une autre pièce, ou pour servir à une coulisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rainure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux tours rondes, coiffées de toits en éteignoir, flanquaient les angles d’un bâtiment, sur la façade duquel deux rainures profondément entaillées trahissaient l’existence primitive d’un pont-levis réduit à l’état de sinécure par le nivelage du fossé, et donnaient au manoir un aspect assez féodal, avec leurs échauguettes en poivrière et leurs girouettes…
La lame du kinjal porte sur chaque face une rainure pour permettre l’écoulement du sang de la victime.
This word in other languages
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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