reine

/\ʁɛn\/ noun

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.

Key facts for reine
PropertyValue
Headwordreine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɛn\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,635
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of reine in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Reine régnante, dirigeante d’un pays, appelé « royaume ». Son mari est souvent appelé « prince consort ».
  2. 2
    Reine consort, épouse du roi.
  3. 3
    Femme affichant une prestance ou une beauté qui lui vaut l’attention ou les soins de tout son entourage.
  4. 4
    Femme en l’honneur de qui a lieu un événement.
  5. 5
    Personne ou réalité qui domine dans un milieu donné.
  6. 6
    Personne ou réalité présentée comme symbole d’excellence en son genre.
  7. 7
    Seule 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.
  8. 8
    Pièce la plus puissante aux échecs.
  9. 9
    Une des figures d’un jeu de cartes.
  10. 10
    Pizza à base de tomate, jambon, champignons, et mozzarella.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

erine5reien5reinne6renie5riene5rreine6
Misspelling Variants of "reine"

Frequency rank: #1,635 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reine"?
"reine" is spelled R-E-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛn\.
What does "reine" mean?
As a noun, "reine" means: Reine régnante, dirigeante d’un pays, appelé « royaume ». Son mari est souvent appelé « prince consort ».
What words are commonly confused with "reine"?
"reine" is commonly confused with "rie", "ren", "rin". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "reine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reine" is \ʁɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "reine" come from?
"reine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.