rénal
\ʁe.nal\
The verdict
“rénal” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,342. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,342
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport aux reins ; qui appartient aux reins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-renal · rénal · French
rénal · rank #49,342 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,342
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réminiscences
Nearest frequency peer: réminiscences (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rénal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réintroduit
réintroduit
50,662 corpus weight
- réjouissez
réjouissez
50,661 corpus weight
- réminiscenc…
réminiscences
50,660 corpus weight
- rénal
rénal
50,659 corpus weight
- réprimés
réprimés
50,658 corpus weight
- résulterait
résulterait
50,656 corpus weight
What this shows « rénal » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rénal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁe.nal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rénal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around rénal (IPA \ʁe.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,342 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a rapport aux reins ; qui appartient aux reins.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for rénal, with forms such as "renal", "rnéal", and "rrénal". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rend", "reno", "reza", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rénal, spelled R-É-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport aux reins ; qui appartient aux reins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rénal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le phosphure de zinc employé comme rodenticide puissant produit en général des lésions nécrotiques ou rénales et entraîne la mort par défaillance cardiaque.
Le néphron est l'unité fonctionnelle du rein qui filtre le sang et élabore l'urine. Chaque rein en renferme environ un million. Un néphron est composé de deux éléments principaux, le glomérule rénal et le tube rénal. — (Encyclopédie familiale de la santé: comprendre, prévenir, soigner, Québec Amérique, 2010, p.401)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- renal
- rnéal
- rrénal
- réanl
- rénall
- rénla
- rénnal
- érnal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rénal - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).