rebondivsrépondsWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: rebondi is a adjective, réponds is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“rebondi” is an adjective and “réponds” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,457
“rebondi” frequency rank
#3,797
“réponds” frequency rank
44254
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rebondi réponds
Definition Arrondi, en parlant de certaines parties charnues que la graisse fait paraître plus volumineuses. Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de répondre.

Where the eye mixes rebondi and réponds

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

7 ch
rebondi
7 ch
réponds

Look-alike desk: rebondi vs réponds

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: rebondi is \ʁə.bɔ̃.di\ while réponds is \ʁe.pɔ̃\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44254, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rebondi is recorded at frequency rank #40,457, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.bɔ̃.di\. réponds is at rank #3,797, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁe.pɔ̃\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 44254, this pair ranks #211,882 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rebondi vs réponds

Shared letters: dnor. Private to "rebondi": bei. Private to "réponds": psé.

"rebondi" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "réponds" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rebondierbondi · rbeondi · rebbondi · rebnodi · rebodni · rebonddi · rebonid · rebonndi

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "rebondi" and "réponds" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rebondi" is an adjective and "réponds" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "rebondi" or "réponds" show up more?
"réponds" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,797 in our French list, against #40,457 for "rebondi". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "rebondi" and "réponds" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rebondi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "réponds" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #211,882 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rebondi" and "réponds" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rebondi vs rebondit". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #211,882 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list