rye
\ʁaj\
The verdict
“rye” is uncommon French (frequency #57,570 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,570
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Whisky canadien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rye · rye · French
rye · rank #57,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,570
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH récidiver
Nearest frequency peer: récidiver (+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 « rye »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- RTM
RTM
42,434 corpus weight
- rugir
rugir
42,433 corpus weight
- rye
rye
42,431 corpus weight
- récidiver
récidiver
42,430 corpus weight
- récitals
récitals
42,429 corpus weight
- régalien
régalien
42,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rye » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁaj\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #57,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rye » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rye is uncommon French at frequency #57,570 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Whisky canadien.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rye in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rye, spelled R-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Whisky canadien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait un placard derrière moi. Je l'ouvris sans quitter Richard des yeux et je trouvais à tâtons la bouteille de rye ; je bus… quatre, cinq gorgées.
Le whisky n’était pas du bourbon mais du scotch, du White Horse, du bon, pour Gérard du moins : les Yankees buvaient du rye, ils aiment le goût de brillantine.
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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