# remit

> English word · Verb · IPA /ɹɪˈmɪt/ · frequency rank #25,901

## Definitions
1. To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
2. To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
3. To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
4. To give up; omit; cease doing.
5. To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
6. To show a lessening or abatement (of a specified quality).
7. To diminish, abate.
8. To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
9. To send back.
10. To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
11. To restore or replace.
12. To postpone.
13. To refer (someone to something), direct someone's attention to something.

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

## Easily confused with
- **ret** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-ret)
- **rit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-rit)
- **rest** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-rest)
- **rent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-rent)
- **Rumi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-rumi)
- **remix** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-remix)
- **reset** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-reset)
- **resin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-resin)
- **Rohit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-rohit)
- **Remus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-remus)
- **Revis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-revis)
- **remote** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-remote)
- **resist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remit-vs-resist)
- **REM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rem-vs-remit)
- **rei** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rei-vs-remit)
- **Reid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reid-vs-remit)
- **rein** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rein-vs-remit)
- **Rami** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rami-vs-remit)
- **Remi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/remi-vs-remit)
- **reis** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reis-vs-remit)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ermit`, `reimt`, `remitt`, `remmit`, `remti`, `rmeit`, `rremit`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/remit