remettre
French, verb/ʁə.mɛtʁ/
remettre is spelled R-E-M-E-T-T-R-E (8 letters) and appears 58 times per million words in written French, the 1,441st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Remettre is a French verb meaning “to put back, replace” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre une chose à l’endroit où elle était auparavant”.
What does remettre mean in English?
verb
- 1
to put back, replace
- 2
to put (clothing etc.) back on
- 3
to restart (machine etc.)
- 4
to hand over, tender, hand in, deliver (to someone)
- 5
to put off, postpone (until)
- 6
to remember
- 7
to add (more)
- 8
to forgive, remit
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre une chose à l’endroit où elle était auparavant. 2. Mettre de nouveau. 3. Reconnaître. 4. Rétablir les personnes, les choses dans l’état où elles étaient auparavant.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of remettre
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- remettant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- remis participle past
- remets first-person indicative present
- remet indicative present singular
- remettons first-person indicative plural
- remettez indicative plural present
- remettent indicative plural present
- remettais first-person imperfect indicative
- remettait imperfect indicative singular
- remettions first-person imperfect indicative
- remettiez imperfect indicative plural
- remettaient imperfect indicative plural
- remit historic indicative past
- remîmes first-person historic indicative
- remîtes historic indicative past
- remirent historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce remettre?
- /ʁə.mɛtʁ/
- \ʁə.mɛtʁ\
- \ʁmɛtʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to remettre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is remettre in French?
remettre appears 58 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).