raie
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,222
in French word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
raie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ligne tracée sur une surface. Pronounced \ʁɛ\. Often confused with Re and rue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,222 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for raie is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,222 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for raie, with forms such as "raei", "riae", and "rraie". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "rue", "roi", 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 raie, spelled R-A-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ligne tracée sur une surface.
- 2Ligne plus longue que large, soit naturelle, comme sur la peau des animaux, sur les marbres, etc., soit artificielle, comme sur les étoffes.
- 3Rayon, ligne.
- 4Quelqu’une des lignes plus ou moins noires, ou plus ou moins brillantes, d'un spectre lumineux.
- 5Entre-deux des sillons.
- 6Séparation de cheveux qui se fait, naturellement ou avec le peigne, sur le haut de la tête.
- 7Ligne tracée sur le sol pour marquer les délimitations du terrain (le cadre), notamment la raie pied de jeu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: raei,riae,rraie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "raie"
Frequency rank: #16,222 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: