renvoyer
\ʁɑ̃.vwa.je\
The verdict
“renvoyer” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,435 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #6,435
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Envoyer à nouveau.
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 | renvoyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɑ̃.vwa.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “renvoyer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for renvoyer is 8 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɑ̃.vwa.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,435 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for renvoyer, with forms such as "ernvoyer", "rennvoyer", and "renovyer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "renvoyés", "renvoyez", "renvoie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is renvoyer, spelled R-E-N-V-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Envoyer à nouveau.
- 2Faire reporter à une personne une chose qu’elle avait envoyée.
- 3Faire reporter à une personne une chose qui lui appartient et qu’elle avait prêtée ou laissée par mégarde en quelque endroit.
- 4Faire retourner quelqu’un ou quelque chose au lieu d’où il était envoyé, d’où il était parti.
- 5Congédier quelqu’un, lui donner son congé.
- 6Adresser une personne à quelqu’un ou en quelque lieu, pour l’éclaircissement de quelque chose.
- 7Transmettre, communiquer à ceux qui doivent les examiner, en parlant des demandes, des propositions, etc. ; y faire droit ou en rendre compte.
- 8Répercuter ; donner en retour.
- 9Ordonner qu’une partie se pourvoira ou qu’un accusé sera traduit devant tel ou tel juge.
- 10Remettre à un autre temps.
- 11Envoyer en sens contraire, relancer, réfléchir, répercuter.
- 12Vomir.
- 13Transmettre la sortie d'une commande à l'utilisateur, retourner.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ernvoyer,rennvoyer,renovyer,renvoeyr,renvoyerr,renvoyre,renvoyyer,renvvoyer,renvyoer,revnoyer,rnevoyer,rrenvoyer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of renvoyer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “renvoyer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-N-V-O-Y-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁɑ̃.vwa.je\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “renvoyés” - see the side-by-side comparison. renvoyer vs renvoyés
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.