Which to use
“remonta” and “renonça” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #46,992
- “remonta” frequency rank
- #48,154
- “renonça” frequency rank
- 95146
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | remonta | renonça |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe remonter. | Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de renoncer. |
Where the eye mixes remonta and renonça
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. remonta and renonça follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Why the eye confuses remonta with renonça
A purely visual mix-up. remonta (\ʁə.mɔ̃.ta\) and renonça (\ʁə.nɔ̃.sa\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 95146, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
remonta is recorded at frequency rank #46,992, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɔ̃.ta\. renonça is at rank #48,154, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.nɔ̃.sa\.
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 95146, this pair ranks #1,224 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of remonta vs renonça
Shared letters: aenor. Private to "remonta": mt. Private to "renonça": ç.
"remonta" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "renonça" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- remonta ← ermonta · remmonta · remnota · remonat · remonnta · remontta · remotna · reomnta
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "remonta" and "renonça" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "remonta" vs "renonça" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "remonta" and "renonça" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "remonta" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "renonça" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,224 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "remonta" and "renonça" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "renonça vs renoncez". 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 #1,224 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.