remarquable
\ʁə.maʁ.kabl\
The verdict
“remarquable” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,276 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #4,276
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui mérite d’être remarqué ; qui attire l’attention.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remarquable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.maʁ.kabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “remarquable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for remarquable is 11 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.maʁ.kabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,276 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui mérite d’être remarqué ; qui attire l’attention.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for remarquable, with forms such as "ermarquable", "reamrquable", and "remaqruable". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "remarquables", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is remarquable, spelled R-E-M-A-R-Q-U-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui mérite d’être remarqué ; qui attire l’attention.
Antonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ermarquable,reamrquable,remaqruable,remarqauble,remarqquable,remarquabble,remarquabel,remarquablle,remarqualbe,remarqubale,remarrquable,remaruqable,remmarquable,remraquable,rmearquable,rremarquable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of remarquable - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “remarquable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-M-A-R-Q-U-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.maʁ.kabl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “remarquables” - see the side-by-side comparison. remarquable vs remarquables
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.