RemivsremitWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Remi is a noun, remit is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Remi” is a noun and “remit” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,416
“Remi” frequency rank
#25,901
“remit” frequency rank
66317
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Remi remit
Definition A Belgic tribe dwelling in the Aisne, Vesle and Suippe river valleys during the Iron Age and the Roman period. To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

Letter map: Remi vs remit

Shared letters muted; letters that set Remi and remit apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. Remi runs 4 letters (CVCV) against remit's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Remi
5 ch
remit

Part-of-speech tell for Remi / remit

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Remi is anoun and remitaverb. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “Remi” sits inside “remit”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66317, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Remi is recorded at frequency rank #40,416, classified as anoun. remit is at rank #25,901, tagged as averb, pronounced /ɹɪˈmɪt/.

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 66317, this pair ranks #68,589 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Remi vs remit

Shared letters: eimr. Private to "Remi": -. Private to "remit": t.

"Remi" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "remit" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Remi ← ermi · reim · remmi · rmei · rremi
  • remit ← ermit · reimt · remitt · remmit · remti · rmeit · rremit

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Remi" and "remit" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Remi" is a noun and "remit" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "Remi" or "remit" show up more?
"remit" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,901 in our English list, against #40,416 for "Remi". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Remi" and "remit".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Remi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #68,589 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Remi" and "remit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Remi vs Revis". 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 #68,589 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list