rayon de soleil

/\ʁɛ.jɔ̃ də sɔ.lɛj\/ noun

The verdict

“rayon de soleil” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
15
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Rai de lumière émis par le soleil.

Key facts for rayon de soleil
PropertyValue
Headwordrayon de soleil
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɛ.jɔ̃ də sɔ.lɛj\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “rayon de soleil” sits in French frequency

rayon de soleil falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rayon de soleil is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛ.jɔ̃ də sɔ.lɛj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for rayon de soleil in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 de soleil, spelled R-A-Y-O-N- -D-E- -S-O-L-E-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rai de lumière émis par le soleil.
  2. 2
    Chose qui apporte du bien-être.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rayon de soleil"?
"rayon de soleil" is spelled R-A-Y-O-N- -D-E- -S-O-L-E-I-L. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛ.jɔ̃ də sɔ.lɛj\.
What does "rayon de soleil" mean?
As a noun, "rayon de soleil" means: Rai de lumière émis par le soleil.
How do you pronounce "rayon de soleil"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rayon de soleil" is \ʁɛ.jɔ̃ də sɔ.lɛj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rayon de soleil" come from?
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Using “rayon de soleil”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is R-A-Y-O-N- -D-E- -S-O-L-E-I-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ʁɛ.jɔ̃ də sɔ.lɛj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.