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remand

/ɹəˈmænd/noun, verb

remand is spelled R-E-M-A-N-D: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,393rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, remand means “The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of remand is remands.

How many letters and syllables are in remand?

Letters6: R-E-M-A-N-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 32,393rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

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.

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

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).

What rhymes with remand?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as remand from its last stressed vowel (/ænd/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

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).

What does remand mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.

  2. 2

    The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.

verb

  1. 1

    To send a prisoner back to custody.

  2. 2

    To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo send back.

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

Remand in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmaintien (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)
GermanPräventivhaft (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)
Spanishremandar (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).

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