rayon
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,871
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rayon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ligne rectiligne qui part d’un centre et va en divergeant. Pronounced \ʁɛ.jɔ̃\. It ranks #3,871 in French word frequency. Often confused with Ryo and Ryan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rayon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛ.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rayon is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛ.jɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,871 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for rayon, with forms such as "aryon", "raoyn", and "rayno". 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, "Ryo", "Ryan", "rays", 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 rayon, spelled R-A-Y-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ligne rectiligne qui part d’un centre et va en divergeant.
- 2Ligne rectiligne qui part d’un centre et va en divergeant.
- 3Espace à l’entour, plus ou moins circulaire.
- 4Pédoncule floral d’une ombelle.
- 5Chacune des parties qui vont du moyeu de la roue à la jante.
- 6Émanation issue d’une source lumineuse irradiante.
- 7Lueur.
- 8Faisceau de particules énergétiques lumineuses.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aryon,raoyn,rayno,rayonn,rayyon,rrayon,ryaon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rayon
Misspelling Variants of "rayon"
Frequency rank: #3,871 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: