Which to use
“renommé” is an adjective and “renonce” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #18,857
- “renommé” frequency rank
- #9,378
- “renonce” frequency rank
- 28235
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | renommé | renonce |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est réputé, célèbre. | Action de ne pas fournir de la couleur demandée ; état de celui qui ne peut pas fournir d’une couleur. |
Letter map: renommé vs renonce
Shared letters muted; letters that set renommé and renonce apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. renommé and renonce follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for renommé / renonce
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: renommé is anadjective and renonceanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28235, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
renommé is recorded at frequency rank #18,857, classified as anadj. renonce is at rank #9,378, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.nɔ̃s\.
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 28235, this pair ranks #324,074 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of renommé vs renonce
Shared letters: enor. Private to "renommé": mé. Private to "renonce": c.
"renommé" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "renonce" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- renonce ← ernonce · rennoce · rennonce · renocne · renoncce · renonec · renonnce · reonnce
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "renommé" for "renonce" ever safe?
Frequency check: "renommé" vs "renonce" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Pair "renommé" vs "renonce" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "renommé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "renonce" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #324,074 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "renommé" and "renonce" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "renommé vs renommées". 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 #324,074 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.