renaissent
\ʁə.nɛs\
The verdict
“renaissent” is uncommon French (frequency #75,155 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,155
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de renaître (ou renaitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-renaissent · renaissent · French
renaissent · rank #75,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,155
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH remuent
Nearest frequency peer: remuent (-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 « renaissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- remaniées
remaniées
24,849 corpus weight
- remuent
remuent
24,847 corpus weight
- renaissent
renaissent
24,846 corpus weight
- rencards
rencards
24,845 corpus weight
- renflouement
renflouement
24,844 corpus weight
- repentez
repentez
24,843 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « renaissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renaissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.nɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « renaissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
renaissent is uncommon French at frequency #75,155 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.nɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for renaissent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is renaissent, spelled R-E-N-A-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de renaître (ou renaitre).
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de renaître (ou renaitre).
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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