rene

/\ˈrẽːne\/ verb

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#35,247

in French word usage

Misspellings

4

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

rene is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe ren/renañ/reniñ. Pronounced \ˈrẽːne\. Often confused with rue and RER.

Key facts for rene
PropertyValue
Headwordrene
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈrẽːne\
Letters4
Frequency rank#35,247
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rene in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rene is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈrẽːne\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,247 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe ren/renañ/reniñ.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for rene, with forms such as "erne", "reen", and "rnee". 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, "rue", "RER", "run", 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 rene, spelled R-E-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe ren/renañ/reniñ.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erne,reen,rnee,rrene

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rene

Misspelling Variants of "rene"

erne4reen4rnee4rrene5
Misspelling Variants of "rene"

Frequency rank: #35,247 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rene"?
"rene" is spelled R-E-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈrẽːne\.
What does "rene" mean?
As a verb, "rene" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe ren/renañ/reniñ.
What words are commonly confused with "rene"?
"rene" is commonly confused with "rue", "RER", "run". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rene"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rene" is \ˈrẽːne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rene" come from?
"rene" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.