rejoinsvsrejointConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#7,890
“rejoins” frequency rank
#2,957
“rejoint” frequency rank
10847
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rejoins rejoint
Definition Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de rejoindre. Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe rejoindre.

Same sound, different letters: rejoins vs rejoint

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. rejoins and rejoint follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

7 ch
rejoins
7 ch
rejoint

Ear matches; page differs - rejoins and rejoint

This is the hard kind. rejoins and rejoint are pronounced identically (\ʁə.ʒwɛ̃\) 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 a single letter - s in “rejoins” becomes t in “rejoint”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10847, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rejoins is recorded at frequency rank #7,890, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ʒwɛ̃\. rejoint is at rank #2,957, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ʒwɛ̃\.

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 10847, this pair ranks #411,446 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of rejoins vs rejoint

Shared letters: eijnor. Private to "rejoins": s. Private to "rejoint": t.

"rejoins" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCC  ·  "rejoint" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rejoinserjoins · rejions · rejjoins · rejoinns · rejoinss · rejoisn · rejonis · reojins
  • rejointerjoint · rejiont · rejjoint · rejoinnt · rejointt · rejoitn · rejonit · reojint

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "rejoins" and "rejoint" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.ʒwɛ̃\), 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 "rejoins" or "rejoint" show up more?
"rejoint" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,957 in our French list, against #7,890 for "rejoins". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "rejoins" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rejoint" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #411,446 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rejoins" and "rejoint" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rejoins vs rêvons". 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 #411,446 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