racine

Other forms of racine

plural

racines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about racine

What does racine mean?

racine means "French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in racine?

racine has 2 syllables: ra-cine. The stress falls on "cine". In IPA it is /ɹəˈsin/.

What is another word for racine?

Close synonyms include Jean Racine, Jean Baptiste Racine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is racine a common word?

racine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with racine?

17 words rhyme with racine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.