Rennes
/ɹɛn/
"rennes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rennes” is an uncommon English word, ranked #51,356 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #51,356
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital city of Ille-et-Vilaine department, France; the capital city of the region of Brittany.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rennes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɹɛn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rennes” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Rennes is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹɛn/. Corpus data places it at rank #51,356 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The capital city of Ille-et-Vilaine department, France; the capital city of the region of Brittany.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Rennes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Rennes, from Old French Resnes, Rednes, from Latin Rēdonēs. Doublet of Redones. The correct English form is Rennes, spelled R-E-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Ille-et-Vilaine department, France; the capital city of the region of Brittany.
Etymology
From French Rennes, from Old French Resnes, Rednes, from Latin Rēdonēs. Doublet of Redones.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Rennes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-N-N-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɹɛn/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.