remariévsremariéeWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#40,961
“remarié” frequency rank
#46,990
“remariée” frequency rank
87951
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remarié remariée
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de remarier. Participe passé féminin singulier de remarier.

Same sound, different letters: remarié vs remariée

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. remarié runs 7 letters (CVCVCVV) against remariée's 8 (CVCVCVVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
remarié
8 ch
remariée

Same sound, different spelling - remarié / remariée

This is the hard kind. remarié and remariée are pronounced identically (\ʁə.ma.ʁje\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “remarié” sits inside “remariée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87951, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remarié is recorded at frequency rank #40,961, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ma.ʁje\. remariée is at rank #46,990, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.ma.ʁje\.

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 87951, this pair ranks #7,616 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remarié vs remariée

Shared letters: aeimré. Private to "remarié": -. Private to "remariée": -.

"remarié" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV  ·  "remariée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remarié" and "remariée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.ma.ʁje\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "remarié" or "remariée"?
"remarié" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40,961 in our French list, against #46,990 for "remariée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remarié" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remariée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #7,616 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remarié" and "remariée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remanier vs remariée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #7,616 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