renoncé
French, verb
renoncé is spelled R-E-N-O-N-C-É (7 letters) and appears 6.5 times per million words in written French, the 9,289th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Renoncé is a French verb meaning “past participle of renoncer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, renonce is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does renoncé mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of renoncer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de ne pas fournir de la couleur demandée ; état de celui qui ne peut pas fournir d’une couleur.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of renoncé
- renoncée feminine
- renoncés masculine plural
- renoncées feminine plural
- renonces plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is renoncé in French?
renoncé appears 6.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).