relayeur
\ʁə.lɛ.jœʁ\
The verdict
“relayeur” is uncommon French (frequency #55,557 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,557
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coureur dans la course de relai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-relayeur · relayeur · French
relayeur · rank #55,557 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,557
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reformulation
Nearest frequency peer: reformulation (-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 « relayeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reef
reef
44,447 corpus weight
- refinanceme…
refinancement
44,446 corpus weight
- reformulati…
reformulation
44,445 corpus weight
- relayeur
relayeur
44,444 corpus weight
- remakes
remakes
44,443 corpus weight
- remington
remington
44,442 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « relayeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | relayeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.lɛ.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « relayeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
relayeur is uncommon French at frequency #55,557 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.lɛ.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for relayeur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is relayeur, spelled R-E-L-A-Y-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Coureur dans la course de relai.
- 2Celui qui entretient des relais de chevaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how relayeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les relayeuses françaises ratent la finale du 4x400m.
Chaque relayeur a des marchés écrits avec les voituriers par eau, et doit parcourir les relais dans un temps donné.
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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