réinvention
\ʁe.ɛ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“réinvention” is uncommon French (frequency #69,401 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,401
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action ou processus par lequel une chose est modifiée à tel point qu'elle paraît entièrement nouvelle. Renouvellement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-reinvention · réinvention · French
réinvention · rank #69,401 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,401
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH récupérons
Nearest frequency peer: récupérons (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « réinvention »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ruineux
ruineux
30,603 corpus weight
- réagirais
réagirais
30,602 corpus weight
- récupérons
récupérons
30,601 corpus weight
- réinvention
réinvention
30,600 corpus weight
- réouvert
réouvert
30,599 corpus weight
- réparant
réparant
30,598 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « réinvention » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | réinvention |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.ɛ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « réinvention » en français
Rare enough to double-check
réinvention is uncommon French at frequency #69,401 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁe.ɛ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for réinvention, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is réinvention, spelled R-É-I-N-V-E-N-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action ou processus par lequel une chose est modifiée à tel point qu'elle paraît entièrement nouvelle. Renouvellement.
- 2Fait de réinventer, c’est-à dire de faire à nouveau l’effort pour créer une chose qui existait déjà.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how réinvention appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette vague de harcèlement pose donc, en creux, la fascinante question de la responsabilité des fictions dans la construction et la réinvention des imaginaires historiques, lesquels, comme l’illustre bien cette affaire, nourrissent en retour des comportements partisans.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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