reculévsremuéTell them apart

Which to use

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

#16,720
“reculé” frequency rank
#45,277
“remué” frequency rank
61997
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reculé remué
Definition Qui est éloigné, lointain. Ému, touché.

Letter map: reculé vs remué

Shared letters muted; letters that set reculé and remué apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. reculé runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against remué's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
reculé
5 ch
remué

Corpus notes: reculé and remué

reculé and remué 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 61997, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reculé is recorded at frequency rank #16,720, classified as anadj. remué is at rank #45,277, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.mɥe\.

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 61997, this pair ranks #89,383 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of reculé vs remué

Shared letters: erué. Private to "reculé": cl. Private to "remué": m.

"reculé" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "remué" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "reculé" and "remué" 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.
Which is more common, "reculé" or "remué"?
"reculé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,720 in our French list, against #45,277 for "remué". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "reculé" and "remué".

  • Full dictionary entry for "reculé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remué" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #89,383 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reculé" and "remué" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rejoué vs remué". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #89,383 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