relaxévsremakeWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: relaxé is a adjective, remake is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“relaxé” is an adjective and “remake” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#33,435
“relaxé” frequency rank
#14,548
“remake” frequency rank
47983
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature relaxé remake
Definition Muscles, des tendons qui ont perdu de leur tension naturelle. Copie ; reprise ; refonte ; réédition.

Letter map: relaxé vs remake

Shared letters muted; letters that set relaxé and remake apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

6 ch
relaxé
6 ch
remake

Role in the sentence - relaxé and remake

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: relaxé is anadjective and remakeanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47983, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

relaxé is recorded at frequency rank #33,435, classified as anadj. remake is at rank #14,548, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁi.mɛ(j)k\.

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 47983, this pair ranks #182,601 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of relaxé vs remake

Shared letters: aer. Private to "relaxé": lxé. Private to "remake": km.

"relaxé" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "remake" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remakeermake · reamke · remaek · remakke · remkae · remmake · rmeake · rremake

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "relaxé" and "remake" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "relaxé" is an adjective and "remake" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "relaxé" or "remake" show up more?
"remake" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,548 in our French list, against #33,435 for "relaxé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "relaxé" and "remake".

  • Full dictionary entry for "relaxé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remake" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #182,601 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "relaxé" and "remake" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "relatés vs relaxé". 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 #182,601 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