remontrance
\ʁə.mɔ̃.tʁɑ̃s\
The verdict
“remontrance” is an uncommon French word, ranked #80,592 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #80,592
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Discours par lequel on remontre à quelqu’un les inconvénients de ce qu’il a fait ou qu’il est sur le point de faire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remontrance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.mɔ̃.tʁɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,592 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “remontrance” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for remontrance is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.mɔ̃.tʁɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #80,592 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
remontrance has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 remontrance, spelled R-E-M-O-N-T-R-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Discours par lequel on remontre à quelqu’un les inconvénients de ce qu’il a fait ou qu’il est sur le point de faire.
- 2Discours par lequel on remontre à quelqu’un les inconvénients de ce qu’il a fait ou qu’il est sur le point de faire.
- 3Discours par lequel on remontre à quelqu’un les inconvénients de ce qu’il a fait ou qu’il est sur le point de faire.
- 4Avertissement qu’on donne à un fautif pour l’obliger à se corriger.
Synonyms
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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 “remontrance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-M-O-N-T-R-A-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁə.mɔ̃.tʁɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.