rejaillir
\ʁə.ʒa.jiʁ\
The verdict
“rejaillir” is uncommon French (frequency #77,859 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,859
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jaillir à la suite d’un choc, d’une pression, etc., en parlant des liquides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rejaillir · rejaillir · French
rejaillir · rank #77,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,859
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reinette
Nearest frequency peer: reinette (-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 « rejaillir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- refaisant
refaisant
22,145 corpus weight
- regrettais
regrettais
22,144 corpus weight
- reinette
reinette
22,143 corpus weight
- rejaillir
rejaillir
22,142 corpus weight
- remboursant
remboursant
22,141 corpus weight
- remixé
remixé
22,140 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rejaillir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rejaillir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.ʒa.jiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #77,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rejaillir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rejaillir is uncommon French at frequency #77,859 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.ʒa.jiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rejaillir, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rejaillir, spelled R-E-J-A-I-L-L-I-R.
Definition
- 1Jaillir à la suite d’un choc, d’une pression, etc., en parlant des liquides.
- 2Repousser, renvoyé en sens inverse, en parlant d'un corps solide qui a frappé un autre corps.
- 3Réfléchir, en parlant de la lumière.
- 4Revenir en bien ou en mal sur une personne, en parlant de l’honneur, du déshonneur, de la gloire, de la honte, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rejaillir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le taureau avait acculé Félicité contre une claire-voie ; sa bave lui rejaillissait à la figure, une seconde de plus il l’éventrait.
Les vagues sautaient sur le pavé de la cale …, leur écume rejaillissait sur les passagers qui s’embarquaient.
This word in other languages
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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