remorguer
\ʁə.mɔʁ.ɡe\
The verdict
“remorguer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante désuète de remorquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-remorguer · remorguer · French
remorguer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remorguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.mɔʁ.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « remorguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
remorguer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.mɔʁ.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante désuète de remorquer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for remorguer, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is remorguer, spelled R-E-M-O-R-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Variante désuète de remorquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how remorguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
ils firent pour cet effet remorguer par leurs galeres un grand vaisseau sur lequel il y avoit un château de bois, & des machines propres à lancer de fort grosses pierres ;
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.