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Amost all French words have a different pronunciation in English, because the vowels have different sounds. Even where the syllables are the same, the accent changes. For example:

The color orange (AW-ranj) or (OHR-inj) in French is (ohr-AHNJ).

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Q: What is a French word that is spelled the same as an English word but is pronounced different?
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