renonciation

/\ʁə.nɔ̃.sja.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,107

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

renonciation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Acte par lequel on renonce à quelque chose. Pronounced \ʁə.nɔ̃.sja.sjɔ̃\.

Key facts for renonciation
PropertyValue
Headwordrenonciation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.nɔ̃.sja.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#29,107
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of renonciation in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for renonciation is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.nɔ̃.sja.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,107 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for renonciation, with forms such as "ernonciation", "rennociation", and "rennonciation". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 renonciation, spelled R-E-N-O-N-C-I-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acte par lequel on renonce à quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Acte par lequel une personne abandonne son droit sur un bien ou un ensemble de biens, un moyen de protection ou de défense contre la prétention d'un tiers, une charge publique ou familiale dont elle était investie.
  3. 3
    Abdication du pape
  4. 4
    Fait de cesser de fréquenter quelqu'un, de cesser de prétendre à sa main.
  5. 5
    Fait de cesser de fréquenter quelqu'un, de cesser de prétendre à sa main.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ernonciation,rennociation,rennonciation,renocniation,renoncaition,renoncciation,renonciaiton,renonciatino,renonciationn,renonciatoin,renonciattion,renoncitaion,renonication,renonnciation,reonnciation,rneonciation,rrenonciation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for renonciation

Misspelling Variants of "renonciation"

ernonciation12rennociation12rennonciation13renocniation12renoncaition12renoncciation13renonciaiton12renonciatino12
Misspelling Variants of "renonciation"

Frequency rank: #29,107 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "renonciation"?
"renonciation" is spelled R-E-N-O-N-C-I-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.nɔ̃.sja.sjɔ̃\.
What does "renonciation" mean?
As a noun, "renonciation" means: Acte par lequel on renonce à quelque chose.
What are common misspellings of "renonciation"?
Common misspellings include "ernonciation", "rennociation", "rennonciation", "renocniation", "renoncaition". The correct spelling is "renonciation".
How do you pronounce "renonciation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "renonciation" is \ʁə.nɔ̃.sja.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "renonciation" come from?
"renonciation" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.