remords
French, noun/ʁə.mɔʁ/
remords is spelled R-E-M-O-R-D-S (7 letters) and appears 3.8 times per million words in written French, the 13,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Remords is a French masculine noun meaning “remorse, feeling of remorse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/second-person singular present indicative of remordre. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Reproche, tourment, regret sincère provoqué par la conscience d’avoir mal agi”.
What does remords mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineremorse, feeling of remorse
J'ai des remords de lui avoir refusé mon aide.
verb
- 1
first/second-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Reproche, tourment, regret sincère provoqué par la conscience d’avoir mal agi.
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.
How do you pronounce remords?
- /ʁə.mɔʁ/
- \ʁə.mɔʁ\
- [ʁə.mɔʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to remords
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is remords in French?
remords appears 3.8 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).