renoué
\ʁə.nwe\
The verdict
“renoué” is uncommon French (frequency #51,702 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,702
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de renouer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-renoue · renoué · French
renoué · rank #51,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,702
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relayant
Nearest frequency peer: relayant (-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 « renoué »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- reform
reform
48,302 corpus weight
- regretterai
regretterai
48,301 corpus weight
- relayant
relayant
48,300 corpus weight
- renoué
renoué
48,299 corpus weight
- reprochaient
reprochaient
48,298 corpus weight
- reptilien
reptilien
48,297 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « renoué » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renoué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.nwe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « renoué » en français
Rare enough to double-check
renoué is uncommon French at frequency #51,702 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.nwe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de renouer.".
renoué doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is renoué, spelled R-E-N-O-U-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de renouer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how renoué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a renoué avec le succès.
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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