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“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.

7 ch
remonta
7 ch
renonça

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

  • remontaermonta · remmonta · remnota · remonat · remonnta · remontta · remotna · reomnta

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remonta" and "renonça" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.mɔ̃.ta\ versus \ʁə.nɔ̃.sa\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "remonta" vs "renonça" - which ranks higher?
"remonta" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #46,992 in our French list, against #48,154 for "renonça". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list