rais

\ʁɛ\

/\ʁɛ\/ noun

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The verdict

“rais” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,509) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#37,509
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne orthographe de rai, figurant au Dictionnaire de l'Académie française jusqu’en 1878.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rais · rais · French

rais · rank #37,509 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,509
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH raiders

Nearest frequency peer: raiders (-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 « rais »

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

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « rais » 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).

rais vs roi
50% similar
rais vs rio
50% similar
rais vs riz
50% similar

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

Key facts for rais
PropertyValue
Headwordrais
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɛ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#37,509
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « rais »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).raisse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « raiders » (#37,508), « ramènera » (#37,510), « radiateurs » (#37,507). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rais » est au #37,509. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for rais is neighbouring look-alikes ("roi", "rio", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ʁɛ\. Frequency #37,509 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Ancienne orthographe de rai, figurant au Dictionnaire de l'Académie française jusqu’en 1878.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for rais, with forms such as "raiss", "rasi", and "rias". 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, "roi", "rio", "riz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rais, spelled R-A-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne orthographe de rai, figurant au Dictionnaire de l'Académie française jusqu’en 1878.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un rais de lumière filtrant par la persienne mal close l’avertit que le vieux pêcheur n’était pas couché.
  2. Voici des jours et des nuits qu’il se traîne dans des sapes obscures où le sable perpétuellement détaché des parois le submerge : quand il aperçoit un rais de lumière, comment n’y marcherait-il pas instinctivement, animalement, dût-il dans ce plein air trouver un pire péril !

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • raiss
  • rasi
  • rias
  • rrais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rais - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

raiss1rasi2rias2rrais1
Edit distance from "rais"

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 "rais"?
"rais" is spelled R-A-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛ\.
What does "rais" mean?
As a noun, "rais" means: Ancienne orthographe de rai, figurant au Dictionnaire de l'Académie française jusqu’en 1878.
What words are commonly confused with "rais"?
"rais" is commonly confused with "roi", "rio", "riz". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rais"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rais" is \ʁɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rais" come from?
"rais" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

ries#37,530peps#37,474sama#37,549mood#37,434

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list