enrayer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,845
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
enrayer is aFrenchverb. It means: Arrêter une roue par les rais, ou au moyen d’un sabot, d’un frein ou d’une chaîne, en sorte qu’elle ne tourne point et qu’elle ne fasse que glisser. Pronounced \ɑ̃.ʁɛ.je\. Often confused with étayer and essayer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enrayer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ʁɛ.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for enrayer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.ʁɛ.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,845 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for enrayer, with forms such as "enaryer", "ennrayer", and "enraeyr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "étayer", "essayer", "envoyer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is enrayer, spelled E-N-R-A-Y-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arrêter une roue par les rais, ou au moyen d’un sabot, d’un frein ou d’une chaîne, en sorte qu’elle ne tourne point et qu’elle ne fasse que glisser.
- 2Arrêter dans son cours.
- 3Garnir une roue de rais.
- 4Creuser par un premier sillon et, spécialement, former les sillons avec un ados.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enaryer,ennrayer,enraeyr,enrayerr,enrayre,enrayyer,enrrayer,enryaer,ernayer,nerayer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for enrayer
Misspelling Variants of "enrayer"
Frequency rank: #22,845 in French
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