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

#32,560
“remarqua” frequency rank
#17,544
“remarquez” frequency rank
50104
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remarqua remarquez
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de remarquer. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de remarquer.

Where the eye mixes remarqua and remarquez

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

8 ch
remarqua
9 ch
remarquez

Look-alike desk: remarqua vs remarquez

A purely visual mix-up. remarqua (\ʁə.maʁ.ka\) and remarquez (\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 50104, 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\. remarquez is at rank #17,544, 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 50104, this pair ranks #165,294 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remarqua vs remarquez

Shared letters: aemqru. Private to "remarqua": -. Private to "remarquez": z.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remarqua ← ermarqua · reamrqua · remaqrua · remarqau · remarqqua · remarrqua · remaruqa · remmarqua
  • remarquez ← ermarquez · reamrquez · remaqruez · remarqeuz · remarqquez · remarquezz · remarquze · remarrquez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remarqua" for "remarquez" 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.
Frequency check: "remarqua" vs "remarquez" - which ranks higher?
"remarquez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,544 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 "remarquez" 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 "remarquez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #165,294 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remarqua" and "remarquez" 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 #165,294 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