Which to use
“rayée” is an adjective and “rays” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #34,275
- “rayée” frequency rank
- #38,501
- “rays” frequency rank
- 72776
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | rayée | rays |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de rayé. | Pluriel de ray. |
Where the eye mixes rayée and rays
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. rayée runs 5 letters (CVVVV) against rays's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: rayée vs rays
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: rayée is \ʁɛ.je\ while rays is \ʁɛ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72776, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
rayée is recorded at frequency rank #34,275, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁɛ.je\. rays is at rank #38,501, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁɛ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 72776, this pair ranks #42,804 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of rayée vs rays
Shared letters: ary. Private to "rayée": eé. Private to "rays": s.
"rayée" · 5 letters · shape CVVVV · "rays" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- rays ← arys · rasy · rayss · rayys · rrays · ryas
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "rayée" and "rays" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "rayée" or "rays" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "rayée" and "rays" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "rayée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "rays" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #42,804 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "rayée" and "rays" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rays vs roya". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #42,804 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.