renommévsrenommerWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#18,857
“renommé” frequency rank
#31,686
“renommer” frequency rank
50543
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature renommé renommer
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Letter map: renommé vs renommer

Shared letters muted; letters that set renommé and renommer apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. renommé runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against renommer's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
renommé
8 ch
renommer

Part-of-speech tell for renommé / renommer

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: renommé is anadjective and renommeraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50543, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

renommé is recorded at frequency rank #18,857, classified as anadj. renommer is at rank #31,686, tagged as averb, 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 50543, this pair ranks #161,827 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of renommé vs renommer

Shared letters: emnor. Private to "renommé": é. Private to "renommer": -.

"renommé" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "renommer" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • renommer ← ernommer · renmomer · rennommer · renomemr · renomer · renommerr · renommre · reonmmer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "renommé" for "renommer" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "renommé" is an adjective and "renommer" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "renommé" vs "renommer" - which ranks higher?
"renommé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,857 in our French list, against #31,686 for "renommer". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "renommé" and "renommer".

  • Full dictionary entry for "renommé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "renommer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #161,827 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "renommé" and "renommer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "renommées vs renommer". 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 #161,827 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