raie

\ʁɛ\

/\ʁɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“raie” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,222) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#16,222
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ligne tracée sur une surface.

Corpus desk

Index FR-raie · raie · French

raie · rank #16,222 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,222
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rabbin

Nearest frequency peer: rabbin (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « raie »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « raie » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

raie vs Re
25% similar
raie vs rue
50% similar
raie vs roi
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for raie
PropertyValue
Headwordraie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɛ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#16,222
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « raie »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.raiese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rabbin » (#16,221), « rassurez » (#16,223), « recherchée » (#16,224). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « raie » est au #16,222. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for raie is neighbouring look-alikes ("Re", "rue", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁɛ\. Frequency #16,222 among 5,742 “R” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for raie, with forms such as "raei", "riae", and "rraie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "rue", "roi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is raie, spelled R-A-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ligne tracée sur une surface.
  2. 2
    Ligne plus longue que large, soit naturelle, comme sur la peau des animaux, sur les marbres, etc., soit artificielle, comme sur les étoffes.
  3. 3
    Rayon, ligne.
  4. 4
    Quelqu’une des lignes plus ou moins noires, ou plus ou moins brillantes, d'un spectre lumineux.
  5. 5
    Entre-deux des sillons.
  6. 6
    Séparation de cheveux qui se fait, naturellement ou avec le peigne, sur le haut de la tête.
  7. 7
    Ligne tracée sur le sol pour marquer les délimitations du terrain (le cadre), notamment la raie pied de jeu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how raie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tirer, faire une raie sur une feuille de papier, sur un plancher, sur une muraille.
  2. Tracer une raie au crayon, à la plume.

Synonyms

lignetrait

This word in other languages

stripe(English)caballón(Español)Streifen(Deutsch)linha(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • raei
  • riae
  • rraie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of raie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

raei2riae2rraie1
Edit distance from "raie"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "raie"?
"raie" is spelled R-A-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛ\.
What does "raie" mean?
As a noun, "raie" means: Ligne tracée sur une surface.
What words are commonly confused with "raie"?
"raie" is commonly confused with "Re", "rue", "roi". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "raie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "raie" is \ʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "raie" come from?
"raie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "raie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

plis#16,211semé#16,234pion#16,208must#16,189

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list