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

#29,940
“rejoigne” frequency rank
#11,842
“rejoignent” frequency rank
41782
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rejoigne rejoignent
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de rejoindre. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rejoindre.

Same sound, different letters: rejoigne vs rejoignent

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. rejoigne runs 8 letters (CVCVVCCV) against rejoignent's 10 (CVCVVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
rejoigne
10 ch
rejoignent

Homophone desk: rejoigne vs rejoignent

This is the hard kind. rejoigne and rejoignent are pronounced identically (\ʁə.ʒwaɲ\) 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) - “rejoigne” sits inside “rejoignent”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41782, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rejoigne is recorded at frequency rank #29,940, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ʒwaɲ\. rejoignent is at rank #11,842, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ʒwaɲ\.

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 41782, this pair ranks #230,525 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rejoigne vs rejoignent

Shared letters: egijnor. Private to "rejoigne": -. Private to "rejoignent": t.

"rejoigne" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCCV  ·  "rejoignent" · 10 letters · shape CVCVVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rejoigne ← erjoigne · rejiogne · rejjoigne · rejogine · rejoigen · rejoiggne · rejoignne · rejoinge
  • rejoignent ← erjoignent · rejiognent · rejjoignent · rejoginent · rejoigennt · rejoiggnent · rejoignennt · rejoignentt

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rejoigne" for "rejoignent" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.ʒwaɲ\), 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 "rejoigne" or "rejoignent" show up more?
"rejoignent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,842 in our French list, against #29,940 for "rejoigne". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rejoigne" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rejoignent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #230,525 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rejoigne" and "rejoignent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rejoigne vs rejointe". 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 #230,525 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