rayonnait
\ʁɛ.jɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“rayonnait” is uncommon French (frequency #75,144 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,144
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rayonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rayonnait · rayonnait · French
rayonnait · rank #75,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,144
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ravissants
Nearest frequency peer: ravissants (-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 « rayonnait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rapin
rapin
24,861 corpus weight
- ratier
ratier
24,860 corpus weight
- ravissants
ravissants
24,858 corpus weight
- rayonnait
rayonnait
24,857 corpus weight
- reconquise
reconquise
24,855 corpus weight
- recraché
recraché
24,854 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rayonnait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rayonnait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛ.jɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rayonnait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rayonnait is uncommon French at frequency #75,144 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɛ.jɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rayonner.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rayonnait in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rayonnait, spelled R-A-Y-O-N-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rayonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rayonnait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa tête brune apparaissait, doucement auréolée par la coiffe de dentelle tuyautée, dont la blancheur neigeuse rayonnait autour de ses traits.
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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