relai
\ʁə.lɛ\
The verdict
“relai” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,558. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,558
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de relayer : résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-relai · relai · French
relai · rank #32,558 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,558
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH redevenue
Nearest frequency peer: redevenue (-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 « relai »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rectiligne
rectiligne
67,446 corpus weight
- reculent
reculent
67,445 corpus weight
- redevenue
redevenue
67,444 corpus weight
- relai
relai
67,443 corpus weight
- relaté
relaté
67,442 corpus weight
- remarqua
remarqua
67,441 corpus weight
What this shows « relai » 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 | relai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « relai »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around relai (IPA \ʁə.lɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,558 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for relai, with forms such as "erlai", "reali", and "relia". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "relu", "remi", "reza", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is relai, spelled R-E-L-A-I.
Definition
- 1Action de relayer : résultat de cette action.
- 2Lieu d’étape.
- 3Émetteur intermédiaire.
- 4Course de relai.
- 5Commutateur ou interrupteur actionné par un électroaimant.
- 6Dispositif sans pièce mobile assurant la même fonction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how relai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne s’agit même pas vraiment d'un travail de relai – au sens d'une course de relai cette fois, où le thérapeute prendrait le relai une fois établi le contact avec le patient. Même dans une forme élémentaire du dispositif, par exemple un chien visiteur dans une institution pour personnes âgées, l’animal ne joue pas uniquement un rôle de relai entre le vi…
Bagandou est un poste de transit, un relai d’étape pour l’acheminement des produits vers Loko.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erlai
- reali
- relia
- rellai
- rleai
- rrelai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of relai - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).