renarde

\ʁə.naʁd\

/\ʁə.naʁd\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « renarde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for renarde
PropertyValue
Headwordrenarde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.naʁd\
Letters7
Frequency rank#69,376
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « renarde » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).renardetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « regroupera » (#69,375), « renchéri » (#69,377), « renoi » (#69,378). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « renarde » est au #69,376. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Femelle du renard.
  2. 2
    Sorcière.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how renarde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ma mère fit un cri de renarde : « Ha !… Où est-il ? – Qui, madame Colette ? – Mon petit garçon ! L’a-t-on vu sortir ? »
  2. — 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "renarde"?
"renarde" is spelled R-E-N-A-R-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.naʁd\.
What does "renarde" mean?
As a noun, "renarde" means: Femelle du renard.
How do you pronounce "renarde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "renarde" is \ʁə.naʁd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "renarde" come from?
"renarde" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "renarde", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list