How to spell rainy

Rainy is spelled R-A-I-N-Y.

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What it means: Having a lot of wet weather and falling water.

In a sentence: On a rainy day, we jump in puddles!

Same family: rain, raining, rainfall, rainstorm. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Rainy comes from the noun 'rain' plus the adjective-forming suffix '-y', which often means 'full of' or 'characterized by'. English has many similar weather words with '-y', like 'sunny', 'cloudy', and 'windy'.

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