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

#32,560
“remarqua” frequency rank
#3,285
“remarquer” frequency rank
35845
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remarqua remarquer
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de remarquer. Marquer à nouveau.

Where the eye mixes remarqua and remarquer

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. remarqua runs 8 letters (CVCVCCVV) against remarquer's 9 (CVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
remarqua
9 ch
remarquer

Visual trap between remarqua and remarquer

A purely visual mix-up. remarqua (\ʁə.maʁ.ka\) and remarquer (\ʁə.maʁ.ke\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35845, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remarqua is recorded at frequency rank #32,560, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.maʁ.ka\. remarquer is at rank #3,285, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.maʁ.ke\.

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 35845, this pair ranks #273,840 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remarqua vs remarquer

Shared letters: aemqru. Private to "remarqua": -. Private to "remarquer": -.

"remarqua" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV  ·  "remarquer" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remarqua ← ermarqua · reamrqua · remaqrua · remarqau · remarqqua · remarrqua · remaruqa · remmarqua
  • remarquer ← ermarquer · reamrquer · remaqruer · remarqeur · remarqquer · remarquerr · remarqure · remarrquer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remarqua" for "remarquer" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.maʁ.ka\ versus \ʁə.maʁ.ke\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "remarqua" or "remarquer"?
"remarquer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,285 in our French list, against #32,560 for "remarqua". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "remarqua" and "remarquer" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remarqua" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remarquer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #273,840 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remarqua" and "remarquer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remarqua vs remarquant". 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 #273,840 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