reine
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,635
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
reine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Reine régnante, dirigeante d’un pays, appelé « royaume ». Son mari est souvent appelé « prince consort ». Pronounced \ʁɛn\. It ranks #1,635 in French word frequency. Often confused with rie and ren.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for reine is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,635 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for reine, with forms such as "erine", "reien", and "reinne". 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, "rie", "ren", "rin", 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 reine, spelled R-E-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Reine régnante, dirigeante d’un pays, appelé « royaume ». Son mari est souvent appelé « prince consort ».
- 2Reine consort, épouse du roi.
- 3Femme affichant une prestance ou une beauté qui lui vaut l’attention ou les soins de tout son entourage.
- 4Femme en l’honneur de qui a lieu un événement.
- 5Personne ou réalité qui domine dans un milieu donné.
- 6Personne ou réalité présentée comme symbole d’excellence en son genre.
- 7Seule femelle fertile d’une colonie d’insectes eusociaux comme les abeilles, les fourmis ou les termites, et dont la fonction principale est de pondre des œufs.
- 8Pièce la plus puissante aux échecs.
- 9Une des figures d’un jeu de cartes.
- 10Pizza à base de tomate, jambon, champignons, et mozzarella.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erine,reien,reinne,renie,riene,rreine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reine
Misspelling Variants of "reine"
Frequency rank: #1,635 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: