renégats
\ʁə.ne.ɡa\
The verdict
“renégats” is uncommon French (frequency #50,473 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,473
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de renégat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-renegats · renégats · French
renégats · rank #50,473 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,473
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renversent
Nearest frequency peer: renversent (-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 « renégats »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rendors
rendors
49,531 corpus weight
- reniement
reniement
49,530 corpus weight
- renversent
renversent
49,529 corpus weight
- renégats
renégats
49,528 corpus weight
- repérages
repérages
49,527 corpus weight
- resplendiss…
resplendissante
49,525 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « renégats » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renégats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.ne.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « renégats » en français
Rare enough to double-check
renégats is uncommon French at frequency #50,473 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.ne.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de renégat.".
No misspelling variants are generated for renégats in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is renégats, spelled R-E-N-É-G-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de renégat.
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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