renewal
noun
renewal is spelled R-E-N-E-W-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is renewl: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 238 of all searches for the word. Renewal is a noun meaning “The act of renewing”. The plural of renewal is renewals.
How do you spell renewal?
Renewal is spelled R-E-N-E-W-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 236 of the searches for renewal in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does renewal mean?
noun
- 1
The act of renewing.
- 2
An offensive action made immediately after a parried one.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce renewal?
- US
Renewal has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-renewal.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of renewal
- renewals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is renewal?
Renewal appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Renewal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of renewing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | renouvellement, renouvèlement |
| German | Erneuerung |
| Portuguese | renovação, renovamento |
| Spanish | renovación, reanudación |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does renewal come from?
From renew + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).