Confusables Entry 295 / 1011 60-second read

Rain vs. Reign vs Rein

Water from sky versus royalty rule versus horse control.

The comparisoni

✗ Wrong

The king's rain lasted 40 years.

✓ Correct

The king's reign lasted 40 years.

The ruleii

RAIN = weather.

Triple homophones. 'Rein in' is frequently misspelled as 'reign in'.

Memory aidiii

Remember it like this

r-EIG-n = S-OVER-EIG-n (Royalty).

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