Rennes
/ɹɛn/
"rennes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rennes” is uncommon English (frequency #51,356 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,356
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Ille-et-Vilaine department, France; the capital city of the region of Brittany.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rennes · Rennes · English
Rennes · rank #51,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,356
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Reims
Nearest frequency peer: Reims (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Rennes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Redgrave
Redgrave
48,650 corpus weight
- refereed
refereed
48,649 corpus weight
- Reims
Reims
48,646 corpus weight
- Rennes
Rennes
48,645 corpus weight
- Revlon
Revlon
48,643 corpus weight
- rhodium
rhodium
48,641 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Rennes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Rennes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Rennes is uncommon English at frequency #51,356 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ɹɛn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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