Which to use
“renouveler” and “renouvelés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,365
- “renouveler” frequency rank
- #31,219
- “renouvelés” frequency rank
- 38584
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | renouveler | renouvelés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Faire à nouveau ; refaire ; répéter. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de renouveler. |
Where the eye mixes renouveler and renouvelés
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. renouveler and renouvelés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVVCVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: renouveler vs renouvelés
A purely visual mix-up. renouveler (\ʁə.nuv.le\) and renouvelés (\ʁə.nu.və.le\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38584, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
renouveler is recorded at frequency rank #7,365, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.nuv.le\. renouvelés is at rank #31,219, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.nu.və.le\.
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 38584, this pair ranks #254,267 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of renouveler vs renouvelés
Shared letters: elnoruv. Private to "renouveler": -. Private to "renouvelés": sé.
"renouveler" · 10 letters · shape CVCVVCVCVC · "renouvelés" · 10 letters · shape CVCVVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- renouveler ← ernouveler · rennouveler · renouevler · renouveelr · renouvelerr · renouveller · renouvelre · renouvleer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "renouveler" and "renouvelés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "renouveler" or "renouvelés" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "renouveler" and "renouvelés" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "renouveler" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "renouvelés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #254,267 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "renouveler" and "renouvelés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "renouvelés vs rénovées". 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 #254,267 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.