remarquentvsremarquésTell them apart

Which to use

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

#27,937
“remarquent” frequency rank
#35,682
“remarqués” frequency rank
63619
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remarquent remarqués
Definition Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de remarquer. Participe passé masculin pluriel de remarquer.

Where the eye mixes remarquent and remarqués

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. remarquent runs 10 letters (CVCVCCVVCC) against remarqués's 9 (CVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
remarquent
9 ch
remarqués

Visual trap between remarquent and remarqués

A purely visual mix-up. remarquent (\ʁə.maʁk\) and remarqués (\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 63619, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remarquent is recorded at frequency rank #27,937, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.maʁk\. remarqués is at rank #35,682, 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 63619, this pair ranks #81,075 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remarquent vs remarqués

Shared letters: aemqru. Private to "remarquent": nt. Private to "remarqués": sé.

"remarquent" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVVCC  ·  "remarqués" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remarquent ← ermarquent · reamrquent · remaqruent · remarqeunt · remarqquent · remarquennt · remarquentt · remarquetn

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remarquent" for "remarqués" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.maʁk\ versus \ʁə.maʁ.ke\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "remarquent" or "remarqués"?
"remarquent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,937 in our French list, against #35,682 for "remarqués". 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 "remarquent" and "remarqués" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remarquent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remarqués" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #81,075 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remarquent" and "remarqués" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remarqués vs remorquer". 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 #81,075 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