renard
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,144
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
renard is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mammifère carnivore, au museau pointu et aux oreilles droites, d’un parmi plusieurs genres de la famille des canidés (Vulpes, Atelocynus, Cerdocyon, Dusicyon, Otocyon, Lycalopex, Urocyon). Pronounced \ʁə.naʁ\. It ranks #8,144 in French word frequency. Often confused with rend and rendre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.naʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for renard is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.naʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,144 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for renard, with forms such as "ernard", "reanrd", and "renadr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rend", "rendre", "retard", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is renard, spelled R-E-N-A-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mammifère carnivore, au museau pointu et aux oreilles droites, d’un parmi plusieurs genres de la famille des canidés (Vulpes, Atelocynus, Cerdocyon, Dusicyon, Otocyon, Lycalopex, Urocyon).
- 2Fourrure de renard.
- 3Personnage cauteleux, fin et rusé.
- 4Ouvrier qui refuse de faire la grève ; jaune.
- 5Ancien outil de navigation, plateau circulaire de bois ou de cuivre, permettant au timonier de noter les conditions de vent aux demi-heures à l’aide de chevilles.
- 6Fentes ou trous par lesquels les eaux d’un bassin ou d’un réservoir se perdent et qu’il est difficile de découvrir.
- 7Bâtiment feint.
- 8Par ellipse de queue de renard, vomissement, vomi, vomissure. Surtout après une cuite avinée, la gerbe vomie a une couleur orangée rappelant celle de l’animal.
- 9Loupe détachée de la gueuse par le feu de la chaufferie. La métaphore est identique au sens précédent, le métal en fusion ayant une couleur orangée.
- 10Flatulence.
- 11Synonyme de requin-renard.
- 12Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté passant et, contrairement au loup, a la queue abaissée. À rapprocher de chien, goupil, levrette, lévrier et loup.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ernard,reanrd,renadr,renardd,renarrd,rennard,renrad,rneard,rrenard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "renard"
Frequency rank: #8,144 in French
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