rayer
French, verb/ʁɛ.je/
rayer is spelled R-A-Y-E-R (5 letters) and appears 1.6 times per million words in written French, the 23,795th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rayer is a French verb meaning “to line, to make lines on, to mark with lines (e.g. a piece of paper)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Marquer d’une ou de plusieurs raies”.
What does rayer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to line, to make lines on, to mark with lines (e.g. a piece of paper)
- 2
to cross out, to cross off (remove something from a list)
Quand il arrivera, tu pourras rayer son nom.
- 3
to wipe off (remove)
Je l'ai rayé du tableau.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Marquer d’une ou de plusieurs raies, 2. Effacer, raturer, faire une raie, passer un trait de plume sur ce qui est écrit. 3. Supprimer, retirer, éliminer.
verb: 1. Jeter, envoyer des rais ; rayonner.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rayer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rayant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rayé participle past
- raye first-person indicative present
- raie first-person indicative present
- rayes indicative present second-person
- raies indicative present second-person
- rayons first-person indicative plural
- rayez indicative plural present
- rayent indicative plural present
- raient indicative plural present
- rayais first-person imperfect indicative
- rayait imperfect indicative singular
- rayions first-person imperfect indicative
- rayiez imperfect indicative plural
- rayaient imperfect indicative plural
- rayai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rayer?
- /ʁɛ.je/
- /ʁe.je/
- \ʁe.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rayer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rayer in French?
rayer appears 1.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).