renommévsrenonceWhich spelling fits?

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

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.

7 ch
renommé
7 ch
renonce

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?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "renommé" is an adjective and "renonce" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "renommé" vs "renonce" - which ranks higher?
"renonce" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,378 in our French list, against #18,857 for "renommé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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  • 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list