rayonner
\ʁɛ.jɔ.ne\
The verdict
“rayonner” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,210. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,210
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeter, envoyer des rayons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rayonner · rayonner · French
rayonner · rank #27,210 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,210
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH recel
Nearest frequency peer: recel (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rayonner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- radeau
radeau
72,794 corpus weight
- radiodiffus…
radiodiffusion
72,793 corpus weight
- rayonner
rayonner
72,791 corpus weight
- recel
recel
72,790 corpus weight
- recevrez
recevrez
72,789 corpus weight
- reclus
reclus
72,788 corpus weight
What this shows « rayonner » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rayonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛ.jɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rayonner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around rayonner (IPA \ʁɛ.jɔ.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,210 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for rayonner, with forms such as "aryonner", "raoynner", and "raynoner". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "redonner", "résonner", "rayonne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rayonner, spelled R-A-Y-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Jeter, envoyer des rayons.
- 2Propager un rayonnement.
- 3Exprimer un sentiment vif.
- 4Faire sentir son action sur une certaine étendue.
- 5Garnir (une pièce) de rayons.
- 6Garnir (une roue) de rayons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rayonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au jour naissant, il [le fleuve] apparaît comme un miroir d’argent que le souffle a terni ; les feux de midi le font rayonner et, quand le soleil décline, il se revêt de nacre ainsi que les coquilles où chante encore la mer.
Le soleil commençait à rayonner sur la cime des montagnes.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aryonner
- raoynner
- raynoner
- rayonenr
- rayoner
- rayonnerr
- rayonnre
- rayyonner
- rrayonner
- ryaonner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rayonner - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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