sprays
\spʁɛ\
The verdict
“sprays” is uncommon French (frequency #77,054 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,054
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de spray.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sprays · sprays · French
sprays · rank #77,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,054
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH spezia
Nearest frequency peer: spezia (-3 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 « sprays »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- souviendras
souviendras
22,952 corpus weight
- soye
soye
22,951 corpus weight
- spezia
spezia
22,950 corpus weight
- sprays
sprays
22,947 corpus weight
- starts
starts
22,943 corpus weight
- stator
stator
22,942 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sprays » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sprays |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \spʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sprays » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sprays is uncommon French at frequency #77,054 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \spʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de spray.".
sprays doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sprays, spelled S-P-R-A-Y-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de spray.
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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