remords
\ʁə.mɔʁ\
The verdict
“remords” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,676. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,676
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Reproche, tourment, regret sincère provoqué par la conscience d’avoir mal agi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-remords · remords · French
remords · rank #13,676 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,676
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH relou
Nearest frequency peer: relou (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « remords »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- raids
raids
86,328 corpus weight
- rationnel
rationnel
86,327 corpus weight
- relou
relou
86,326 corpus weight
- remords
remords
86,325 corpus weight
- remplies
remplies
86,324 corpus weight
- restants
restants
86,323 corpus weight
What this shows « remords » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | remords |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.mɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « remords »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around remords (IPA \ʁə.mɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,676 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Reproche, tourment, regret sincère provoqué par la conscience d’avoir mal agi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for remords, with forms such as "ermords", "remmords", and "remodrs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "remous", "réponds", "retards", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is remords, spelled R-E-M-O-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Reproche, tourment, regret sincère provoqué par la conscience d’avoir mal agi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how remords appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Brave et digne femme, pour qui le crime dans lequel était tombé son mari était un remords, et qui, se croyant responsable devant Dieu, comme épouse, passait sa vie en prières et en confession.
Quiconque a eu un remords à apaiser, un souvenir à évoquer, une douleur à noyer, un château en Espagne à bâtir, tous enfin vous ont invoqué, dieu mystérieux caché dans les fibres de la vigne.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ermords
- remmords
- remodrs
- remordds
- remordss
- remorrds
- remorsd
- remrods
- reomrds
- rmeords
- rremords
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of remords - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).