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ren¹

  • /ɹɛn/
  • /ɹiːn/

Sounds like wren · Rhymes with -ɛn

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin rēn. Doublet of rein (“kidney”).

noun renes

  1. A kidney. Having treated laſt of the expulſion of the inteſtinal fæces, we come next to conſider thoſe organs, which ſeparate and throw off another principal excrementitious matter, to wit, urine. The firſt of which is the renes or kidneys.

ren²

  • /ɹɛn/
  • /ɹiːn/

Sounds like wren · Rhymes with -ɛn

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Egyptian rn, r:n-A2

noun rens

  1. Egyptian One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology. For the Ren did not belong to the man, but came out of the Celestial Waters to enter an infant in the hour of his birth and might not stir again until it was time to go back.

ren³

  • /ɹɛn/
  • /ɹiːn/

Sounds like wren · Rhymes with -ɛn

Where it comes from

From the third to fifth letters of the word “parent.”

noun rens

  1. neologism, slang A non-binary parent.

Ren⁴

  • /rɛn/

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of Renaissance, particularly in the context of Renaissance fairs.

Ren⁵

  • /rɛn/

Where it comes from

From the atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 妊 (Rèn), an ancient surname also used as an adjective meaning "pregnant". Doublet of Jen.

proper noun Rens

  1. A surname from Chinese.

REN⁶

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of ringer equivalence number

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Raw Egg Nationalist, a far-right Internet personality. “REN and Man’s World represents a paradigm case of how masculinity is being articulated at the heart of rightwing politics,” said Scott Burnett, an assistant professor of African studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: wick, yam, term, shan, clean, pure, office, appointed, yan, incheon, rhine, jen, rene, lim, yim, inchon

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@misc{ren_2026,
  title = {ren},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ren},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}