reins

\ʁɛ̃\

/\ʁɛ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“reins” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,059. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,059
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rein.

Corpus desk

Index FR-reins · reins · French

reins · rank #10,059 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,059
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH renforts

Nearest frequency peer: renforts (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « reins »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « reins » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

reins vs ris
60% similar
reins vs res
60% similar
reins vs ren
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for reins
PropertyValue
Headwordreins
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɛ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#10,059
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « reins »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.reinsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « renforts » (#10,060), « repasser » (#10,061), « putains » (#10,056). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « reins » est au #10,059. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around reins (IPA \ʁɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,059 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for reins, with forms such as "erins", "reinns", and "reinss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ris", "res", "ren", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is reins, spelled R-E-I-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de rein.
  2. 2
    La région anatomique lombaire, après le dos.
  3. 3
    Reins de voûte : dessus d'une voûte de part et d'autre de la clé, compris entre l'extrados et un plan vertical élevé à partir de la naissance de l'extrados. Cet espace est en général rempli d'un blocage chargeant l'arc. Cet espace peut aussi être vide. On distingue les reins pleins et les reins vides.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how reins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pour les eaux minérales, l’observation a depuis longtemps fixé, pour chacune d’elles, un domaine d’élection : la peau, les muqueuses, les reins, le système circulatoire, par exemple, et l’expérimentation confirme ces données ; ainsi, pour le cas qui nous occupe, les expériences faites au laboratoire de physiologie du Dr Billard à Clermont-Ferrand ont mont…
  2. Mes parents ne possédaient que quinze hectares mais, accroupis ou à genoux, en se relevant tout doucement à intervalles réguliers pour se décasser les reins et les genoux, sous une journée de juillet, quinze hectares, c’est long comme le Groenland, de bas en haut, de long en large ; ça n’en finit pas d’être long.

Synonyms

lombes

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • erins
  • reinns
  • reinss
  • reisn
  • renis
  • rreins

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reins - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

erins2reinns1reinss1reisn2renis2rreins1
Edit distance from "reins"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reins"?
"reins" is spelled R-E-I-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛ̃\.
What does "reins" mean?
As a noun, "reins" means: Pluriel de rein.
What words are commonly confused with "reins"?
"reins" is commonly confused with "ris", "res", "ren". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "reins"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reins" is \ʁɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "reins" come from?
"reins" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "reins", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

resta#10,063price#10,050serie#10,072neufs#10,037

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

rousse6 variantsTroll6 variantsLand6 variantsHassan6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list