frai
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#52,075
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
frai is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de frayer. Pronounced \fʁɛ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | frai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for frai is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #52,075 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for frai in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 frai, spelled F-R-A-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de frayer.
- 2Fraie, période du frai (1), de reproduction des poissons.
- 3Période de reproduction des amphibiens.
- 4Œufs de poisson mêlés avec ce qui les rend féconds.
- 5Œufs des batraciens.
- 6Petits poissons dont on peuple les étangs.
- 7Usure subie par les pièces de monnaie à force de circuler.
- 8Prélèvement frauduleux de métal sur une pièce d’or ou d’argent.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #52,075 in French
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