renouveau
French, noun/ʁə.nu.vo/
renouveau is spelled R-E-N-O-U-V-E-A-U (9 letters) and appears 6.9 times per million words in written French, the 8,831st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Renouveau is a French masculine noun meaning “renewal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Retour du printemps ; début du printemps”.
What does renouveau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerenewal
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Retour du printemps ; début du printemps. 2. Retour de quelque chose après son déclin.
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 renouveau
- renouveaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce renouveau?
- /ʁə.nu.vo/
- \ʁə.nu.vo\
- [ʁə.nu.vo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is renouveau in French?
renouveau appears 6.9 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).