Rayon
[ʁɛˈjɔ̃ː]
The verdict
“Rayon” is uncommon German (frequency #90,776 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,776
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Abteilung, Einheit, Verwaltungsabschnitt, für den eine Person zuständig ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-rayon · Rayon · German
Rayon · rank #90,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,776
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 42,116
- PHOTO-FINISH rear
Nearest frequency peer: rear (+1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Rayon”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Rassistin
Rassistin
9,230 corpus weight
- Raubkunst
Raubkunst
9,229 corpus weight
- Rayon
Rayon
9,225 corpus weight
- rear
rear
9,224 corpus weight
- Rechnungspr…
Rechnungsprüfer
9,222 corpus weight
- Rechtsschut…
Rechtsschutzes
9,221 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Rayon” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rayon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁɛˈjɔ̃ː] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rayon” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Rayon is uncommon German at frequency #90,776 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ʁɛˈjɔ̃ː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abteilung, Einheit, Verwaltungsabschnitt, für den eine Person zuständig ist".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rayon, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Rayon, spelled R-A-Y-O-N.
Definition
- 1Abteilung, Einheit, Verwaltungsabschnitt, für den eine Person zuständig ist
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.