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How to spell rain
What it means: Drops of water falling from clouds.
In a sentence: The rain made the flowers grow.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as rein or raine.
How learners on Spelling.School have misspelled it: zzz, qqq
Sounds like, but is not: reign, rein. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.
Same family: rains, raining, rainy, rainfall, rainstorm. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The word "rain" comes from Old English "regn" or "regen," meaning rain, and is related to similar words in German and Dutch. It is one of the oldest weather words in English and has been used for over a thousand years.
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