Which to use
“renvoyer” and “renvoyés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,435
- “renvoyer” frequency rank
- #20,260
- “renvoyés” frequency rank
- 26695
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | renvoyer | renvoyés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Envoyer à nouveau. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de renvoyer. |
Same sound, different letters: renvoyer vs renvoyés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. renvoyer and renvoyés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - renvoyer and renvoyés
This is the hard kind. renvoyer and renvoyés 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 26695, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
renvoyer is recorded at frequency rank #6,435, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.vwa.je\. renvoyés is at rank #20,260, 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 26695, this pair ranks #333,394 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of renvoyer vs renvoyés
Shared letters: enorvy. Private to "renvoyer": -. Private to "renvoyés": sé.
"renvoyer" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVVC · "renvoyés" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- renvoyer ← ernvoyer · rennvoyer · renovyer · renvoeyr · renvoyerr · renvoyre · renvoyyer · renvvoyer
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "renvoyer" for "renvoyés" ever safe?
Frequency check: "renvoyer" vs "renvoyés" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"renvoyer" and "renvoyés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "renvoyer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "renvoyés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #333,394 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "renvoyer" and "renvoyés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "renvoyées vs renvoyés". 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 #333,394 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.