renseigner
\ʁɑ̃.se.ɲe\
The verdict
“renseigner” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,753
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner des renseignements.
Corpus desk
Index FR-renseigner · renseigner · French
renseigner · rank #7,753 · 15 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,753
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renommée
Nearest frequency peer: renommée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « renseigner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rebelle
rebelle
92,251 corpus weight
- remplaçant
remplaçant
92,250 corpus weight
- renommée
renommée
92,249 corpus weight
- renseigner
renseigner
92,248 corpus weight
- reprocher
reprocher
92,247 corpus weight
- routier
routier
92,246 corpus weight
What this shows « renseigner » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | renseigner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.se.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « renseigner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around renseigner (IPA \ʁɑ̃.se.ɲe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,753 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for renseigner, with forms such as "ernseigner", "renesigner", and "rennseigner". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "résigner", "renseignez", "renseignés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is renseigner, spelled R-E-N-S-E-I-G-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner des renseignements.
- 2Prendre des renseignements.
- 3Être averti ; être au courant.
- 4Remplir (notamment un document numérique ou papier).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how renseigner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Eh bien, voyez l’interne de service. Il vous renseignera mieux que je ne puis le faire. Vous le trouverez à la salle de garde.
Il me renseigna fort mal.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ernseigner
- renesigner
- rennseigner
- renseginer
- renseigenr
- renseiggner
- renseignerr
- renseignner
- renseignre
- renseinger
- rensiegner
- rensseigner
- resneigner
- rneseigner
- rrenseigner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of renseigner - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "renseigner", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).