renaissance
\ʁə.nɛ.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“renaissance” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,916 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,916
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de renaître, seconde, nouvelle naissance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renaissance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.nɛ.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #5,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “renaissance” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for renaissance is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.nɛ.sɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,916 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for renaissance, with forms such as "ernaissance", "reanissance", and "renaisance". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is renaissance, spelled R-E-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Action de renaître, seconde, nouvelle naissance.
- 2Renouvellement, renouveau.
- 3Réapparition après une interruption, en parlant des choses morales ou intellectuelles.
- 4Nom donné à des laines issues du recyclage par carbonisage de tissus anciens contenant de la laine et du coton ou par effilochage (mungo et shoddy) de vieux vêtements en laine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ernaissance,reanissance,renaisance,renaisasnce,renaissacne,renaissancce,renaissanec,renaissannce,renaissnace,renasisance,reniassance,rennaissance,rneaissance,rrenaissance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of renaissance - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “renaissance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.nɛ.sɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.