rayonnent
\ʁɛ.jɔn\
The verdict
“rayonnent” is uncommon French (frequency #59,577 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,577
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rayonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rayonnent · rayonnent · French
rayonnent · rank #59,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,577
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ravioli
Nearest frequency peer: ravioli (-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 « rayonnent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rajoutés
rajoutés
40,428 corpus weight
- rancunes
rancunes
40,427 corpus weight
- rapprochez
rapprochez
40,426 corpus weight
- ravioli
ravioli
40,425 corpus weight
- rayonnent
rayonnent
40,424 corpus weight
- recoupements
recoupements
40,422 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rayonnent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rayonnent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛ.jɔn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rayonnent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rayonnent is uncommon French at frequency #59,577 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁɛ.jɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rayonnent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rayonnent, spelled R-A-Y-O-N-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rayonner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de rayonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rayonnent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rosace est sublime : ses onze branches rayonnent sur un treillis de pierre qui n’est pas sans évoquer les moucharabiehs arabes.
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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