rend
\ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“rend” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #856
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de rendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rend · rend · French
rend · rank #856 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #856
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH technique
Nearest frequency peer: technique (+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 « rend »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pourra
pourra
99,148 corpus weight
- prochaine
prochaine
99,147 corpus weight
- rend
rend
99,145 corpus weight
- technique
technique
99,144 corpus weight
- union
union
99,143 corpus weight
- V
V
99,142 corpus weight
What this shows « rend » 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 | rend |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rend »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around rend (IPA \ʁɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #856 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de rendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for rend, with forms such as "ernd", "redn", and "rendd". 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, "RER", "run", "rex", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rend, spelled R-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de rendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Berthaut Ducreux, a proposé l’emploi des silicéo-calcaires tels que le calcaire de Senonches comme pouzzolane assez énergique. La silice gélatineuse de ces calcaires les rend, en effet, propres à silicater et à hydraulifier la chaux grasse.
Dans le cas d’un vol pré-dédouané, au moment où le passager s’enregistre, il se rend directement du bureau d’enregistrement de la compagnie aérienne à un agent des douanes américain qui saisit les données de son passeport.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ernd
- redn
- rendd
- rennd
- rned
- rrend
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rend - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).