Rainville
\ʁɛ̃.vil\
The verdict
“Rainville” is uncommon French (frequency #79,660 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,660
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Vosges.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rainville · Rainville · French
Rainville · rank #79,660 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,660
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH raconterez
Nearest frequency peer: raconterez (-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 « Rainville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pétainiste
pétainiste
20,345 corpus weight
- raconterez
raconterez
20,342 corpus weight
- Rainville
Rainville
20,341 corpus weight
- Ramsar
Ramsar
20,340 corpus weight
- rassasiée
rassasiée
20,339 corpus weight
- ratings
ratings
20,338 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Rainville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rainville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ̃.vil\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Rainville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Rainville is uncommon French at frequency #79,660 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁɛ̃.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Vosges.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Rainville, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Rainville, spelled R-A-I-N-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Vosges.
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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