remous
\ʁə.mu\
The verdict
“remous” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,652. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,652
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retour de l’eau sur elle-même dans le sillage d’un navire en marche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-remous · remous · French
remous · rank #19,652 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,652
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH remettra
Nearest frequency peer: remettra (-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 « remous »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rejetés
rejetés
80,352 corpus weight
- remettra
remettra
80,350 corpus weight
- remous
remous
80,349 corpus weight
- rencontra
rencontra
80,348 corpus weight
- reptiles
reptiles
80,347 corpus weight
- retraits
retraits
80,346 corpus weight
What this shows « remous » 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 | remous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.mu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « remous »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around remous (IPA \ʁə.mu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,652 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for remous, with forms such as "ermous", "remmous", and "remosu". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "reus", "repos", "revus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 remous, spelled R-E-M-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Retour de l’eau sur elle-même dans le sillage d’un navire en marche.
- 2Tournoiement d’un fluide autour d’un obstacle.
- 3Contre-courants qui se forment sur les bords d’une rivière.
- 4Mouvements en sens divers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how remous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Envisagé du bord, un débarquement semblait d'autant plus difficile qu'outre les remous et les brisants qui encerclaient l'îlot, la configuration du rocher ne s'y prête guère.
L'arrière-bec est la partie profilée d'une pile en rivière, côté aval, destinée à réduire le remous dû au courant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ermous
- remmous
- remosu
- remouss
- remuos
- reomus
- rmeous
- rremous
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of remous - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).