relais
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,094
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
relais is aFrenchnoun. It means: Un ou plusieurs chevaux frais, soit de selle, soit d’attelage, que l’on poste en quelque endroit pour remplacer ou renforcer ceux qui ont servi jusque-là. Pronounced \ʁə.lɛ\. It ranks #4,094 in French word frequency. Often confused with repas and remis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for relais is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.lɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,094 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for relais, with forms such as "erlais", "realis", and "relaiss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "repas", "remis", "relié", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is relais, spelled R-E-L-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Un ou plusieurs chevaux frais, soit de selle, soit d’attelage, que l’on poste en quelque endroit pour remplacer ou renforcer ceux qui ont servi jusque-là.
- 2Se dit aussi en parlant des chiens qu’on poste, soit à la chasse du cerf, soit à celle du sanglier,.
- 3Lieu où l’on met les chevaux frais, soit pour les voyages soit pour la chasse, où on changeait et entretenait sa monture.
- 4Lieu d’étape.
- 5Lieu d’étape.
- 6Émetteur intermédiaire.
- 7Émetteur intermédiaire.
- 8Émetteur intermédiaire.
- 9Course de relais.
- 10Changement de cheval en tête d'une course hippique.
- 11Commutateur ou interrupteur actionné par un électroaimant.
- 12Dispositif sans pièce mobile assurant la même fonction.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erlais,realis,relaiss,relasi,relias,rellais,rleais,rrelais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for relais
Misspelling Variants of "relais"
Frequency rank: #4,094 in French
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