remise en état
\ʁə.mi.zɑ̃.n‿e.ta\
The verdict
“remise en état” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de rendre de nouveau utilisable quelque chose qui était endommagé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remise en état |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.mi.zɑ̃.n‿e.ta\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “remise en état” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for remise en état is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.mi.zɑ̃.n‿e.ta\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Action de rendre de nouveau utilisable quelque chose qui était endommagé.".
remise en état doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 remise en état, spelled R-E-M-I-S-E- -E-N- -É-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1Action de rendre de nouveau utilisable quelque chose qui était endommagé.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “remise en état”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-M-I-S-E- -E-N- -É-T-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.