renaissant
\ʁə.nɛ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“renaissant” is uncommon French (frequency #80,593 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,593
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui renaît.
Corpus desk
Index FR-renaissant · renaissant · French
renaissant · rank #80,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,593
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH remontrance
Nearest frequency peer: remontrance (-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 « renaissant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- remerciait
remerciait
19,411 corpus weight
- remontrance
remontrance
19,409 corpus weight
- renaissant
renaissant
19,408 corpus weight
- renforça
renforça
19,407 corpus weight
- renifleurs
renifleurs
19,406 corpus weight
- Renucci
Renucci
19,405 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « renaissant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renaissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.nɛ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « renaissant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
renaissant is uncommon French at frequency #80,593 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁə.nɛ.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for renaissant in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is renaissant, spelled R-E-N-A-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui renaît.
- 2Relatif à la Renaissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how renaissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Incapable de soupçonner l’influence de la médiocratie de sa vallée, Montcornet ne parla donc pas de Gaubertin, dont la main attisait le foyer de ces renaissantes difficultés.
Les quartiers nouveaux, les églises neuves, n’ont pas encore modifié si cruellement son apparence de cité médiévale et renaissante, à petites rues, à pentes rapides, à peuple criard, à enseignes et à cabarets.
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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