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“renvoyées” and “renvoyez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#46,410
“renvoyées” frequency rank
#44,687
“renvoyez” frequency rank
91097
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature renvoyées renvoyez
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de renvoyer. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de renvoyer.

Same sound, different letters: renvoyées vs renvoyez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. renvoyées runs 9 letters (CVCCVVVVC) against renvoyez's 8 (CVCCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
renvoyées
8 ch
renvoyez

Homophone desk: renvoyées vs renvoyez

This is the hard kind. renvoyées and renvoyez 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 91097, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

renvoyées is recorded at frequency rank #46,410, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.vwa.je\. renvoyez is at rank #44,687, 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 91097, this pair ranks #4,164 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of renvoyées vs renvoyez

Shared letters: enorvy. Private to "renvoyées": sé. Private to "renvoyez": z.

"renvoyées" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVVVVC  ·  "renvoyez" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • renvoyez ← ernvoyez · rennvoyez · renovyez · renvoeyz · renvoyezz · renvoyyez · renvoyze · renvvoyez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "renvoyées" and "renvoyez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁɑ̃.vwa.je\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "renvoyées" vs "renvoyez" - which ranks higher?
"renvoyez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #44,687 in our French list, against #46,410 for "renvoyées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "renvoyées" / "renvoyez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "renvoyées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "renvoyez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #4,164 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "renvoyées" and "renvoyez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rénovées 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 #4,164 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