rejettevsrejettentWhich spelling fits?

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“rejette” and “rejettent” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#8,296
“rejette” frequency rank
#17,248
“rejettent” frequency rank
25544
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rejette rejettent
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de rejeter. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rejeter.

Same sound, different letters: rejette vs rejettent

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. rejette runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against rejettent's 9 (CVCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
rejette
9 ch
rejettent

Ear matches; page differs - rejette and rejettent

This is the hard kind. rejette and rejettent are pronounced identically (\ʁə.ʒɛt\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “rejette” sits inside “rejettent”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25544, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rejette is recorded at frequency rank #8,296, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ʒɛt\. rejettent is at rank #17,248, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ʒɛt\.

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 25544, this pair ranks #340,268 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of rejette vs rejettent

Shared letters: ejrt. Private to "rejette": -. Private to "rejettent": n.

"rejette" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "rejettent" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rejette ← erjette · reejtte · rejetet · rejjette · rejtete · rjeette · rrejette
  • rejettent ← erjettent · reejttent · rejetent · rejetetnt · rejettennt · rejettentt · rejettetn · rejettnet

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "rejette" and "rejettent" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.ʒɛt\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "rejette" or "rejettent" show up more?
"rejette" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,296 in our French list, against #17,248 for "rejettent". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"rejette" and "rejettent" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rejette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rejettent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #340,268 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rejette" and "rejettent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rejettent vs revêtent". 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 #340,268 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