Confusion reigns…
Alas, the confusion doesn’t end there: both rein and reign can be used as verbs as well as nouns. As a verb, reign literally means ‘rule as a monarch’:
v Queen Elizabeth reigns over the UK.
and has also gained the extended meaning ‘be dominant or the best’:
v All around him, chaos and disorder reigned.
v In America, baseball reigns supreme.
Similarly, the verb rein means ‘control a horse by pulling on the reins’:
v He reined his horse to a halt.
I hope this clarrification helped
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