Which to use
“renard” and “renards” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,144
- “renard” frequency rank
- #26,849
- “renards” frequency rank
- 34993
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | renard | renards |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mammifère carnivore, au museau pointu et aux oreilles droites, d’un parmi plusieurs genres de la famille des canidés (Vulpes, Atelocynus, Cerdocyon, Dusicyon, Otocyon, Lycalopex, Urocyon). | Pluriel de renard. |
Same sound, different letters: renard vs renards
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - renard and renards
This is the hard kind. renard and renards are pronounced identically (\ʁə.naʁ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “renard” sits inside “renards”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34993, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
renard is recorded at frequency rank #8,144, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.naʁ\. renards is at rank #26,849, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.naʁ\.
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 34993, this pair ranks #279,935 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of renard vs renards
Shared letters: adenr. Private to "renard": -. Private to "renards": s.
"renard" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC · "renards" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "renard" and "renards" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "renard" or "renards"?
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 "renard" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "renards" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #279,935 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "renard" and "renards" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rénales vs renards". 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 #279,935 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.