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Rye is a grain. Historically it grew as a weed crop, intermingled with (predominately?) eastern European wheat, and the cheap (peasant) solution was to harvest both & just ignore its presence. Somewhere along the way the poor man's food became a preferred taste, and you now have people making rye flour with which one can make varying degrees of rye/wheat/other grain breads, all the way up through pumpernickle, which is essentially pure rye.
(Please do not hold me accountable for factual errors. I did no research. I also did not really read any previous posts more than enough to think 'rye! I can write a barely solicited, vaguely informative paragraph about that!')
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