renommervsrenommésWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#31,686
“renommer” frequency rank
#28,717
“renommés” frequency rank
60403
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature renommer renommés
Definition Donner un nouveau nom. Masculin pluriel de renommé.

Same sound, different letters: renommer vs renommés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. renommer and renommés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
renommer
8 ch
renommés

Ear matches; page differs - renommer and renommés

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: renommer and renommés carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ʁə.nɔ.me\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60403, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

renommer is recorded at frequency rank #31,686, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.nɔ.me\. renommés is at rank #28,717, tagged as anadj, 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 60403, this pair ranks #97,795 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of renommer vs renommés

Shared letters: emnor. Private to "renommer": -. Private to "renommés": sé.

"renommer" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC  ·  "renommés" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "renommer" for "renommés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "renommer" is a verb and "renommés" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "renommer" vs "renommés" - which ranks higher?
"renommés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,717 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.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "renommer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "renommés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #97,795 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "renommer" and "renommés" 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 #97,795 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