remakevsremoteTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#14,548
“remake” frequency rank
#43,634
“remote” frequency rank
58182
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remake remote
Definition Copie ; reprise ; refonte ; réédition. Lointain, distant (au propre et au figuré).

Letter map: remake vs remote

Shared letters muted; letters that set remake and remote apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
remake
6 ch
remote

Part-of-speech tell for remake / remote

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: remake is anoun and remoteanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58182, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remake is recorded at frequency rank #14,548, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁi.mɛ(j)k\. 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 58182, this pair ranks #110,564 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remake vs remote

Shared letters: emr. Private to "remake": ak. Private to "remote": ot.

"remake" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "remote" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remakeermake · reamke · remaek · remakke · remkae · remmake · rmeake · rremake
  • remoteermote · remmote · remoet · remotte · remtoe · reomte · rmeote · rremote

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remake" and "remote" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remake" is a noun and "remote" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "remake" or "remote" show up more?
"remake" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,548 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "remake" 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 #110,564 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remake" 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 #110,564 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