relay
\ˈɹiː.leɪ\
The verdict
“relay” is uncommon French (frequency #50,466 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,466
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-relay · relay · French
relay · rank #50,466 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,466
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH remboursent
Nearest frequency peer: remboursent (+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 « relay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- redondant
redondant
49,538 corpus weight
- redonnent
redonnent
49,537 corpus weight
- relay
relay
49,535 corpus weight
- remboursent
remboursent
49,534 corpus weight
- remontons
remontons
49,533 corpus weight
- remus
remus
49,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « relay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹiː.leɪ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « relay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
relay is uncommon French at frequency #50,466 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɹiː.leɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for relay in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is relay, spelled R-E-L-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Relais.
- 2Relais.
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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