remise

/\ʁə.miz\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,333

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

remise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de remettre en un lieu, dans un état, dans une situation... (le mot est toujours accompagné d'un complément) Pronounced \ʁə.miz\. It ranks #2,333 in French word frequency. Often confused with rise and remix.

Key facts for remise
PropertyValue
Headwordremise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁə.miz\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,333
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of remise in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for remise is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.miz\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,333 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for remise, with forms such as "ermise", "reimse", and "remies". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rise", "remix", "renié", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is remise, spelled R-E-M-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de remettre en un lieu, dans un état, dans une situation... (le mot est toujours accompagné d'un complément)
  2. 2
    Action de remettre à quelqu’un, de rendre, de livrer.
  3. 3
    Action de remettre.
  4. 4
    Grâce que l’on fait à un débiteur, en lui remettant une partie de ce qu’il doit.
  5. 5
    Se dit aussi en parlant des peines.
  6. 6
    Somme que l’on abandonne à celui qui est chargé de faire une recette, un recouvrement, une commission, et qu’il ajoute à ses appointements, ou qui lui en tient lieu.
  7. 7
    Rabais que les commerçants accordent à certaines personnes sur le prix porté au catalogue.
  8. 8
    Délai de grâce, renvoi à un autre temps.
  9. 9
    Petit édifice qui sert de rangement saisonnier.
  10. 10
    Local destiné à mettre les voitures à couvert.
  11. 11
    Endroit où une perdrix se remet après avoir fait son vol.
  12. 12
    Taillis de peu d’étendue, planté dans une campagne, pour servir de retraite aux lièvres, aux perdrix, etc.
  13. 13
    Troisième trempe d’une chandelle.
  14. 14
    Partie nulle.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ermise,reimse,remies,remisse,remmise,remsie,rmeise,rremise

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for remise

Misspelling Variants of "remise"

ermise6reimse6remies6remisse7remmise7remsie6rmeise6rremise7
Misspelling Variants of "remise"

Frequency rank: #2,333 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "remise"?
"remise" is spelled R-E-M-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁə.miz\.
What does "remise" mean?
As a noun, "remise" means: Action de remettre en un lieu, dans un état, dans une situation... (le mot est toujours accompagné d'un complément)
What words are commonly confused with "remise"?
"remise" is commonly confused with "rise", "remix", "renié". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "remise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "remise" is \ʁə.miz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "remise" come from?
"remise" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.