rempart

\ʁɑ̃.paʁ\

/\ʁɑ̃.paʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“rempart” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,780. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,780
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Levée de terre, ordinairement revêtue de pierres et entourée d’un fossé, qui défend une place.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rempart · rempart · French

rempart · rank #14,780 · 11 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #14,780
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rasé

Nearest frequency peer: rasé (-2 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 « rempart »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rempart » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rempart vs report
71% similar
rempart vs repart
86% similar
rempart vs réparé
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rempart
PropertyValue
Headwordrempart
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɑ̃.paʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#14,780
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rempart »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).rempartse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rasé » (#14,778), « renseigne » (#14,782), « raisonner » (#14,776). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rempart » est au #14,780. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around rempart (IPA \ʁɑ̃.paʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,780 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for rempart, with forms such as "ermpart", "remaprt", and "remmpart". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "report", "repart", "réparé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rempart, spelled R-E-M-P-A-R-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Levée de terre, ordinairement revêtue de pierres et entourée d’un fossé, qui défend une place.
  2. 2
    Ce qui sert de défense.
  3. 3
    Parois vertigineuses qui marquent puissamment le relief de l’île.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rempart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À l’époque de ce siège, les remparts de Carcassonne n’avaient ni l’étendue ni la force qui leur furent données depuis par Louis IX et Philippe le Hardi.
  2. A Nonancourt, le rempart urbain, bien visible sur le cadastre napoléonien, ne semble pas remonter au delà de la fin du Moyen-Age. Des fortifications plus anciennes existaient peut-être, mais à l’emplacement du noyau initial du bourg, sur l'actuelle commune de la Madeleine-de-Nonancourt. On y voyait encore des vestiges de murailles et de fossés au siècle d…

This word in other languages

rampart(English)baluarte(Español)Stadtmauer(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ermpart
  • remaprt
  • remmpart
  • remparrt
  • rempartt
  • rempatr
  • remppart
  • remprat
  • repmart
  • rmepart
  • rrempart

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rempart - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ermpart2remaprt2remmpart1remparrt1rempartt1rempatr2remppart1remprat2
Edit distance from "rempart"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rempart"?
"rempart" is spelled R-E-M-P-A-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɑ̃.paʁ\.
What does "rempart" mean?
As a noun, "rempart" means: Levée de terre, ordinairement revêtue de pierres et entourée d’un fossé, qui défend une place.
What words are commonly confused with "rempart"?
"rempart" is commonly confused with "report", "repart", "réparé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rempart"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rempart" is \ʁɑ̃.paʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rempart" come from?
"rempart" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rempart", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

préfets#14,772réponde#14,789schiste#14,793sexisme#14,797

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

raisonner11 variantssouffrait11 variantspassionnée11 variantstenaient11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list