renommévsrenomméesTell them apart

Quick tell: renommé is a adjective, renommées is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“renommé” is an adjective and “renommées” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#18,857
“renommé” frequency rank
#44,686
“renommées” frequency rank
63543
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature renommé renommées
Definition Qui est réputé, célèbre. Pluriel de renommée.

Letter map: renommé vs renommées

Shared letters muted; letters that set renommé and renommées apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. renommé runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against renommées's 9 (CVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
renommé
9 ch
renommées

Part-of-speech tell for renommé / renommées

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: renommé is anadjective and renomméesanoun. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “renommé” sits inside “renommées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63543, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

renommé is recorded at frequency rank #18,857, classified as anadj. renommées is at rank #44,686, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.nɔ.me\.

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 63543, this pair ranks #81,458 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of renommé vs renommées

Shared letters: emnoré. Private to "renommé": -. Private to "renommées": s.

"renommé" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "renommées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "renommé" and "renommées" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "renommé" is an adjective and "renommées" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "renommé" vs "renommées" - which ranks higher?
"renommé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,857 in our French list, against #44,686 for "renommées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "renommé" and "renommées". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "renommé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "renommées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #81,458 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "renommé" and "renommées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "réformées vs renommées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #81,458 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