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 |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est réputé, célèbre. | Donner un nouveau nom. |
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.
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?
Frequency check: "renommé" vs "renommer" - which ranks higher?
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.