relatévsremoteWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: relaté is a verb, remote is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“relaté” is a verb and “remote” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#32,559
“relaté” frequency rank
#43,634
“remote” frequency rank
76193
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature relaté remote
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de relater. Lointain, distant (au propre et au figuré).

Letter map: relaté vs remote

Shared letters muted; letters that set relaté and remote apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

6 ch
relaté
6 ch
remote

Part-of-speech tell for relaté / remote

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: relaté is averb and remoteanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76193, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

relaté is recorded at frequency rank #32,559, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.la.te\. remote is at rank #43,634, tagged as anadj.

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 76193, this pair ranks #31,827 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of relaté vs remote

Shared letters: ert. Private to "relaté": alé. Private to "remote": mo.

"relaté" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "remote" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remoteermote · remmote · remoet · remotte · remtoe · reomte · rmeote · rremote

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "relaté" and "remote" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "relaté" is a verb and "remote" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "relaté" or "remote"?
"relaté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,559 in our French list, against #43,634 for "remote". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "relaté" vs "remote" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "relaté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remote" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #31,827 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "relaté" and "remote" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rejoué vs remote". 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 #31,827 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