rayo
\ˈra.ʝo\
The verdict
“rayo” is uncommon French (frequency #54,835 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,835
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rayon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rayo · rayo · French
rayo · rank #54,835 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,835
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ravins
Nearest frequency peer: ravins (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « rayo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rarissimes
rarissimes
45,170 corpus weight
- ravies
ravies
45,168 corpus weight
- ravins
ravins
45,167 corpus weight
- rayo
rayo
45,166 corpus weight
- rebaptiser
rebaptiser
45,164 corpus weight
- rechutes
rechutes
45,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rayo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rayo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈra.ʝo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rayo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rayo is uncommon French at frequency #54,835 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈra.ʝo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rayo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rayo, spelled R-A-Y-O.
Definition
- 1Rayon.
- 2Éclair.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rayo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un mediodía ardiente hicieron una asombrosa demostración con la lupa gigantesca: pusieron un montón de hierba seca en mitad de la calle y le prendieron fuego mediante la concentración de los rayos solares.
La noche estaba apacible, alumbrada por el tenue rayo de las estrellas, […].
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.
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