rein
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,931
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rein is aFrenchnoun. It means: Organe pair, situé dans l’abdomen, en arrière du péritoine, au niveau de la douzième paire de côtes (flottantes), qui assure, par filtration et excrétion d’urine, l’élimination des toxiques et l’éq... Pronounced \ʁɛ̃\. Often confused with roi and rio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rein |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rein is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,931 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for rein, with forms such as "erin", "reinn", and "reni". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "roi", "rio", "riz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rein, spelled R-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Organe pair, situé dans l’abdomen, en arrière du péritoine, au niveau de la douzième paire de côtes (flottantes), qui assure, par filtration et excrétion d’urine, l’élimination des toxiques et l’équilibre hydroélectrolytique du sang et de l’organisme en général.
- 2Lombes, bas de l’épine dorsale et la région voisine.
- 3Siège de la force, des sentiments.
- 4Partie d’une voûte ou d’un arc comprise entre la portée et le sommet.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erin,reinn,reni,rrein
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rein
Misspelling Variants of "rein"
Frequency rank: #10,931 in French
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