rain

1. 1.

   precipitate as rain

   “If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding”

   Synonymsrain down

   Broaderprecipitate

   Narrowerdrizzleshowersprinklepour

Other forms of rain

plural

rains·

past tense

rained·

present participle

raining·

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 rain

What does rain mean?

rain means "water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rain?

rain has 1 syllable: rain. In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪn/.

What is another word for rain?

Close synonyms include rainfall, rainwater, pelting, rain down. 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 rain a common word?

rain is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 rain?

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