remains
\ɹɪˈmeɪnz\
The verdict
“remains” is uncommon French (frequency #76,080 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,080
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Restes, la dépouille mortelle d'un être.
Corpus desk
Index FR-remains · remains · French
remains · rank #76,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,080
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relaxante
Nearest frequency peer: relaxante (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « remains »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rejoindrez
rejoindrez
23,924 corpus weight
- relancera
relancera
23,923 corpus weight
- relaxante
relaxante
23,922 corpus weight
- remains
remains
23,921 corpus weight
- remercierez
remercierez
23,920 corpus weight
- renonçons
renonçons
23,918 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « remains » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remains |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹɪˈmeɪnz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « remains » en français
Rare enough to double-check
remains is uncommon French at frequency #76,080 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɹɪˈmeɪnz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Restes, la dépouille mortelle d'un être.".
remains has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is remains, spelled R-E-M-A-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Restes, la dépouille mortelle d'un être.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how remains appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Buddha exhorted his followers not to worship him but to give his remains the honours of a Chakravartin (Emperor). Accordingly, stūpas were erected over his remains and in his memory, and homage was rendered to them.
It is understood that once the kupuna leaves this world to journey on to the spiritual world, their remains should never be disturbed.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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