reys

/ɹeɪs/obsolete

reys is a noun meaning “A journey or a military expedition” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-Y-S, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reys is reyses.

What does reys mean?

noun

1
obsoleteA journey or a military expedition.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce reys?

/ɹeɪs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-race.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is reys?

Reys appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.

reys0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does reys come from?

From Middle English reys (“a journey; military expedition”), from Proto-West Germanic *raisu. Cognate with Danish rejse (“journey, trip, travel”), Dutch reis (“journey, trip, travel”), German Reise (“journey, travel”), Low German Reis (“journey, travel”) North Frisian reyse (“travel, expedition”), Norwegian reise (“trip, journey”), Swedish resa (“trip, journey”). See also reyse.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).