relayant
\ʁə.lɛ.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“relayant” is uncommon French (frequency #51,701 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,701
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de relayer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-relayant · relayant · French
relayant · rank #51,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,701
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH regretterai
Nearest frequency peer: regretterai (-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 « relayant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reform
reform
48,302 corpus weight
- regretterai
regretterai
48,301 corpus weight
- relayant
relayant
48,300 corpus weight
- renoué
renoué
48,299 corpus weight
- reprochaient
reprochaient
48,298 corpus weight
- reptilien
reptilien
48,297 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « relayant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relayant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.lɛ.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « relayant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
relayant is uncommon French at frequency #51,701 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.lɛ.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de relayer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for relayant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is relayant, spelled R-E-L-A-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de relayer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how relayant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La chaîne porte un contenu de proximité en relayant et en mettant en scène les événements majeurs pour le territoire, reconnaît Noham Huclin, directeur délégué de 20 Minutes TV.
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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