renarde
\ʁə.naʁd\
The verdict
“renarde” is uncommon French (frequency #69,376 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,376
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femelle du renard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-renarde · renarde · French
renarde · rank #69,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,376
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH regroupera
Nearest frequency peer: regroupera (-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 « renarde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- regne
regne
30,628 corpus weight
- regroupera
regroupera
30,626 corpus weight
- renarde
renarde
30,625 corpus weight
- renchéri
renchéri
30,624 corpus weight
- renoi
renoi
30,623 corpus weight
- repassez
repassez
30,622 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « renarde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renarde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.naʁd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « renarde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
renarde is uncommon French at frequency #69,376 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.naʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for renarde, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 renarde, spelled R-E-N-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Femelle du renard.
- 2Sorcière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how renarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma mère fit un cri de renarde : « Ha !… Où est-il ? – Qui, madame Colette ? – Mon petit garçon ! L’a-t-on vu sortir ? »
— La renarde a bouffé l’âme de Seisaku !
This word in other languages
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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