remand

/ɹəˈmænd/noun, verb

remand is a noun meaning “The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-M-A-N-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of remand is remands.

What does remand mean?

noun

1
The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
2
The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.

verb

1
To send a prisoner back to custody.
2
To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
3
obsoleteTo send back.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce remand?

UK /ɹɪˈmɑːnd/
US /ɹəˈmænd/

Remand has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-remand.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of remand

remands plural, present, singular, he/she/it
remanding participle, present
remanded participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is remand?

Remand appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd most frequent word form in the list.

remand0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Remand in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

Language	Words
French	maintien (en détention préventive) (sending an accused person back into custody), renvoi (devant une autre cour) (sending a matter back to a lower court), maintenir (send a prisoner back to custody), renvoyer (send a case back to a lower court)
German	Präventivhaft (sending an accused person back into custody), Zurückverweisung (sending a matter back to a lower court), zurückverweisen (send a case back to a lower court)
Spanish	remandar (send a prisoner back to custody)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does remand come from?

From Middle English remaunden (“to send back”), from Middle French remander (“to send back”), from Late Latin remandare (“to send backward”), from Latin remandare (“to order”). Compare countermand.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).