Which to use
“renvoyée” and “renvoyer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,043
- “renvoyée” frequency rank
- #6,435
- “renvoyer” frequency rank
- 24478
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | renvoyée | renvoyer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de renvoyer. | Envoyer à nouveau. |
Same sound, different letters: renvoyée vs renvoyer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. renvoyée (CVCCVVVV) and renvoyer (CVCCVVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Homophone desk: renvoyée vs renvoyer
This is the hard kind. renvoyée and renvoyer are pronounced identically (\ʁɑ̃.vwa.je\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24478, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
renvoyée is recorded at frequency rank #18,043, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.vwa.je\. renvoyer is at rank #6,435, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.vwa.je\.
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 24478, this pair ranks #346,413 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of renvoyée vs renvoyer
Shared letters: enorvy. Private to "renvoyée": é. Private to "renvoyer": -.
"renvoyée" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVVV · "renvoyer" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- renvoyer ← ernvoyer · rennvoyer · renovyer · renvoeyr · renvoyerr · renvoyre · renvoyyer · renvvoyer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "renvoyée" and "renvoyer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "renvoyée" vs "renvoyer" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "renvoyée" / "renvoyer". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "renvoyée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "renvoyer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #346,413 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "renvoyée" and "renvoyer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "renvoyée vs renvoyées". 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 #346,413 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.