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raïs

French, noun

raïs is a French masculine noun meaning “rais” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its diaeresis, rais is a different word: “plural of rai”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Titre de plusieurs dignitaires de l’empire ottoman”.

What does raïs mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinerais

noun

as rais
  1. 1

    masculineplural of rai

suffix

as -rais
  1. 1

    first/second-person singular conditional of -re

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Ancienne orthographe de rai, figurant au Dictionnaire de l'Académie française jusqu’en 1878.

noun: 1. En Sicile, celui qui est chargé d’organiser sur un bateau la pêche au thon rouge.

noun: 1. Titre de plusieurs dignitaires de l’empire ottoman. 2. Chef politique, dans le monde musulman.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

English words that translate to raïs

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is raïs in French?

raïs appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).