fraie
\fʁɛ\
The verdict
“fraie” is uncommon French (frequency #70,658 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,658
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Période du frai, époque où les poissons se reproduisent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fraie · fraie · French
fraie · rank #70,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,658
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH Fortunat
Nearest frequency peer: Fortunat (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « fraie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fluorescent…
fluorescentes
29,346 corpus weight
- Fortunat
Fortunat
29,344 corpus weight
- fraie
fraie
29,343 corpus weight
- frappants
frappants
29,342 corpus weight
- Friedland
Friedland
29,341 corpus weight
- frottait
frottait
29,340 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fraie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fraie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fraie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fraie is uncommon French at frequency #70,658 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Période du frai, époque où les poissons se reproduisent.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fraie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fraie, spelled F-R-A-I-E.
Definition
- 1Période du frai, époque où les poissons se reproduisent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fraie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les combinaisons de croisement entre salmones ne sont limitées que par les différences existant dans l'époque de la fraie.
Les travaux sont généralement interdits d’octobre à avril, période de fraie et d’incubation des truites.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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