renan
\ˈrẽːnãn\
The verdict
“renan” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,106. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,106
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe ren/renañ/reniñ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-renan · renan · French
renan · rank #29,106 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,106
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reconverti
Nearest frequency peer: reconverti (-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 « renan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reboot
reboot
70,898 corpus weight
- recenser
recenser
70,897 corpus weight
- reconverti
reconverti
70,896 corpus weight
- renan
renan
70,895 corpus weight
- renonciation
renonciation
70,894 corpus weight
- renseignez
renseignez
70,893 corpus weight
What this shows « renan » 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 | renan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈrẽːnãn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « renan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around renan (IPA \ˈrẽːnãn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,106 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe ren/renañ/reniñ.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for renan, with forms such as "ernan", "reann", and "renann". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rend", "Ryan", "reno", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is renan, spelled R-E-N-A-N.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif du verbe ren/renañ/reniñ.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ernan
- reann
- renann
- renna
- rennan
- rnean
- rrenan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of renan - 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).