Rennes
\ʁɛn\
The verdict
“Rennes” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,219. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,219
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département d’Ille-et-Vilaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rennes · Rennes · French
Rennes · rank #3,219 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,219
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH regrette
Nearest frequency peer: regrette (-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 « Rennes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pure
pure
96,785 corpus weight
- raté
raté
96,784 corpus weight
- regrette
regrette
96,783 corpus weight
- Rennes
Rennes
96,782 corpus weight
- roy
roy
96,781 corpus weight
- réalisée
réalisée
96,780 corpus weight
What this shows « Rennes » 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 | Rennes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Rennes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Rennes (IPA \ʁɛn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #3,219 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département d’Ille-et-Vilaine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Rennes, with forms such as "ernnes", "renens", and "renes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "reyes", "runes", "réunis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Rennes, spelled R-E-N-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département d’Ille-et-Vilaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rennes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après deux ans de pandémie et avant de reprendre son cours normal en 2023 de Dol-de-Bretagne à Rennes, le Tro-Breizh prend ses quartiers d’été à Guimiliau notamment vers les îles de Batz et Callot, la basilique du Folgoët, Saint-Thégonnec…
Vers 22 h 30, vendredi, une voiture avec deux hommes à son bord, originaires de Planguenoual (22), circulait sur la voie express RN 12 entre Saint-Brieuc et Rennes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ernnes
- renens
- renes
- renness
- rennse
- rnenes
- rrennes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Rennes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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