rectovsremoTell them apart

Which to use

“recto” and “remo” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#24,355
“recto” frequency rank
#39,972
“remo” frequency rank
64327
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recto remo
Definition Première page d’un feuillet, par opposition au verso, qui est la seconde page, celle qui se trouve au revers du feuillet. Langue munda parlée dans l’État d’Orissa, en Inde. Son code ISO 639-3 est bfw.

Letter map: recto vs remo

Shared letters muted; letters that set recto and remo apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
recto
4 ch
remo

Spelling & dictionary notes on recto vs remo

recto and remo are indexed as a confusable French pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 64327, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recto is recorded at frequency rank #24,355, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁɛk.to\. remo is at rank #39,972, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 64327, this pair ranks #77,592 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of recto vs remo

Shared letters: eor. Private to "recto": ct. Private to "remo": m.

"recto" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "remo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rectoercto · rceto · reccto · recot · rectto · retco · rrecto
  • remoermo · remmo · reom · rmeo · rremo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "recto" and "remo" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary French text, does "recto" or "remo" show up more?
"recto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,355 in our French list, against #39,972 for "remo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "recto" and "remo". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "recto" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #77,592 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recto" and "remo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Reis vs remo". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #77,592 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list