rendezvous
/ˈɹɑndəˌvu/noun, verb
rendezvous is spelled R-E-N-D-E-Z-V-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is rendevous: about 400 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Rendezvous is a noun meaning “A meeting or date”.
How many letters and syllables are in rendezvous?
| Letters | 10: R-E-N-D-E-Z-V-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, rendevous, about 400 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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).
How do you spell rendezvous?
Rendezvous is spelled R-E-N-D-E-Z-V-O-U-S. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for rendezvous 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.
How common is rendezvous?
Rendezvous appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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).
How do you pronounce rendezvous?
- UK /ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/
- UK /ˈɹɒndeɪ̯ˌvuː/
- US /ˈɹɑndəˌvu/
Rendezvous 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-rendezvous.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-rendezvous.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rendezvous
- rendezvouses plural, rare, present, singular, he/she/it
- rendez-vous
- rendezvousing participle, present
- rendezvoused participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does rendezvous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A meeting or date.
Near-synonym: assignation (hyponymous in modern use)
- 2
An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.
- 3
A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
- 4
The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
- 5
A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
- 6
obsoleteA retreat or refuge.
verb
- 1
To meet at an agreed time and place.
Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate rendezvous?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of rendezvous: RV.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Rendezvous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rendez-vous , se donner rendez-vous, se rencontrer, se rejoindre |
| German | Rendezvous , sich treffen |
| Portuguese | encontro , rendez-vous |
| Spanish | encuentro, cita, rendez-vous , punto de encuentro |
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 rendezvous come from?
Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).