renégat
\ʁə.ne.ɡa\
The verdict
“renégat” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,908. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,908
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui a renié sa religion pour en adopter une autre (éventuellement sous la contrainte).
Corpus desk
Index FR-renegat · renégat · French
renégat · rank #49,908 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,908
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renouvellemen…
Nearest frequency peer: renouvellements (-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 « renégat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- relit
relit
50,097 corpus weight
- remplaçable
remplaçable
50,095 corpus weight
- renouvellem…
renouvellements
50,094 corpus weight
- renégat
renégat
50,093 corpus weight
- repreneurs
repreneurs
50,092 corpus weight
- restitués
restitués
50,090 corpus weight
What this shows « renégat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renégat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ne.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « renégat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around renégat (IPA \ʁə.ne.ɡa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,908 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for renégat, with forms such as "ernégat", "renegat", and "rengéat". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is renégat, spelled R-E-N-É-G-A-T.
Definition
- 1Celui qui a renié sa religion pour en adopter une autre (éventuellement sous la contrainte).
- 2Celui qui a renié ses convictions, ses engagements, trahi son propre camp.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how renégat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ah ! maudit renégat, le plus méchant du monde, Que le ciel te punisse et l'enfer te confonde ! — (Regnard, Les Ménechmes)
Les renégats eurent la plénitude des droits des citoyens musulmans, les chrétiens fidèles ne jouirent que d’une assimilation incomplète et limitée, et, devenus tributaires, ils durent payer l’haràc..
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ernégat
- renegat
- rengéat
- rennégat
- renéagt
- renégatt
- renéggat
- renégta
- reéngat
- rneégat
- rrenégat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of renégat - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).