renoncer
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,495
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
renoncer is aFrenchverb. It means: Se désister de quelque chose, soit par acte exprès, soit autrement. Pronounced \ʁə.nɔ̃.se\. It ranks #5,495 in French word frequency. Often confused with rénover and renouer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renoncer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.nɔ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for renoncer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.nɔ̃.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,495 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for renoncer, with forms such as "ernoncer", "rennocer", and "rennoncer". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "rénover", "renouer", "résonner", 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 renoncer, spelled R-E-N-O-N-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se désister de quelque chose, soit par acte exprès, soit autrement.
- 2Quitter, abandonner la possession, le désir de quelque chose, l’attachement à quelque chose.
- 3Se dépouiller de tout amour-propre.
- 4Mettre une carte d’une autre couleur que celle qui est jouée, soit qu’on ait de cette dernière, soit qu’on n’en ait pas.
- 5Renier, désavouer, ne vouloir plus reconnaître quelqu’un pour ce qu’il est ou pour ce qu’on le croyait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ernoncer,rennocer,rennoncer,renocner,renonccer,renoncerr,renoncre,renonecr,renonncer,reonncer,rneoncer,rrenoncer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for renoncer
Misspelling Variants of "renoncer"
Frequency rank: #5,495 in French
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Nearby French words
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