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.
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?
Frequency check: "renommé" vs "renommées" - which ranks higher?
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.