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remit

/ɹiˈmɪt/verb, noun

remit is spelled R-E-M-I-T: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, remit means “To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in remit?

Letters5: R-E-M-I-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.2 times per million words; the 25,751st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

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 remit?

Remit appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 25,751st 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 remit?

  • UK /ɹɪˈmɪt/
  • US /ɹiˈmɪt/
  • US /ɹɪˈmɪt/

Remit 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-remit.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-remit2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with remit?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: merit, timer, mitre, miter.

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 remit

  • remits present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • remitting participle, present
  • remitted participle, past
  • remytte

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

What does remit mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.

    The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to remit foreign exchange for the tournament.

  2. 2

    To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offense, etc.).

  3. 3

    To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.

    to remit the performance of an obligation

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo give up; omit; cease doing.

  5. 5

    To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).

    Great Alexander in the midst of all his prosperity […], when he saw one of his wounds bleed, remembered that he was but a man, and remitted of his pride.

  7. 7

    obsoleteTo diminish, abate.

  8. 8

    To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).

noun

  1. 1

    UKTerms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.

    WHO/TDR should prepare a volume containing ... important issues in the performance of studies that fall outside of the GLP remit.

  2. 2

    A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.

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

Remit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Portugueseremeter (to transmit or send, to supply), remitir (to forgive, pardon)
Spanishremitir, remesar (remittances) (to transmit or send, to supply), competencia, negociado (terms of reference; set of responsibilities)
Frenchremettre (to forgive, pardon)

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 remit come from?

From Middle English remitten, from Latin remittere (“to send, send back”). Compare Old French remettre, remetre, remitter.

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

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