Rais
[ˌʁaˈiːs]
The verdict
“Rais” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in arabischen Ländern Titel einer Führungsperson, besonders des Staatsoberhauptes
Corpus desk
Index DE-rais · Rais · German
Rais · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rais |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌʁaˈiːs] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Rais“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Rais is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌʁaˈiːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rais, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Rais, spelled R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1in arabischen Ländern Titel einer Führungsperson, besonders des Staatsoberhauptes
- 2Träger des unter [1] beschriebenen Titels
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die politische Polizei mag noch so viel Furcht und Schrecken verbreiten - selbst für seine Gegner gilt Gamal Abdel Nasser als bedeutende geschichtliche Führungsgestalt, als Rais, der die Ärmsten wie die intellektuelle Elite begeisterte.“
„Durch seine Verwandtschaft zu den Husseinis, die zu den wichtigsten Notabelnfamilien Palästinas gehören, sowie seine Abstammung vom berühmten Großmufti von Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini ist seine Position als Führer (Rais) in der arabischen Clangesellschaft besonders legitimiert.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.