raie des fesses
\ʁɛ dɛ fɛs\
The verdict
“raie des fesses” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sillon situé entre les fesses et au bas duquel se trouve l’anus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-raie-des-fesses · raie des fesses · French
raie des fesses · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raie des fesses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ dɛ fɛs\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « raie des fesses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
raie des fesses is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɛ dɛ fɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sillon situé entre les fesses et au bas duquel se trouve l’anus.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for raie des fesses, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is raie des fesses, spelled R-A-I-E- -D-E-S- -F-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Sillon situé entre les fesses et au bas duquel se trouve l’anus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how raie des fesses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par nécessité, ou plutôt opportunité, Alexis avait observé que la raie des fesses se présente pareille chez les filles et chez les garçons. Le jour où le garde le surprit à en administrer la preuve à un berger de son âge, il jugea que la mesure était dépassée de ce coup-là et courut avertir son père.
Son short blanc lui rentre dans la raie des fesses.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.