fraye
\fʁɛj\
The verdict
“fraye” is uncommon French (frequency #65,959 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,959
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite rainure creusée au bord du dos de la lame d’un couteau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-fraye · fraye · French
fraye · rank #65,959 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,959
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH frapperait
Nearest frequency peer: frapperait (-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 « fraye »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Francoeur
Francoeur
34,044 corpus weight
- frapperait
frapperait
34,043 corpus weight
- fraye
fraye
34,042 corpus weight
- fried
fried
34,040 corpus weight
- frivolité
frivolité
34,039 corpus weight
- fromagère
fromagère
34,038 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « fraye » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fraye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fraye » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fraye is uncommon French at frequency #65,959 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fʁɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for fraye in our index, 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is fraye, spelled F-R-A-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Petite rainure creusée au bord du dos de la lame d’un couteau.
- 2Nom vulgaire de la grive musicienne (ou grive commune), dans certaines régions de France.
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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