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

#3,285
“remarquer” frequency rank
#35,682
“remarqués” frequency rank
38967
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remarquer remarqués
Definition Marquer à nouveau. Participe passé masculin pluriel de remarquer.

Same sound, different letters: remarquer vs remarqués

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. remarquer and remarqués follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

9 ch
remarquer
9 ch
remarqués

Homophone desk: remarquer vs remarqués

This is the hard kind. remarquer and remarqués are pronounced identically (\ʁə.maʁ.ke\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38967, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remarquer is recorded at frequency rank #3,285, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.maʁ.ke\. 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 38967, this pair ranks #251,514 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remarquer vs remarqués

Shared letters: aemqru. Private to "remarquer": -. Private to "remarqués": sé.

"remarquer" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC  ·  "remarqués" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remarquer ← ermarquer · reamrquer · remaqruer · remarqeur · remarqquer · remarquerr · remarqure · remarrquer

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "remarquer" and "remarqués" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.maʁ.ke\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "remarquer" vs "remarqués" - which ranks higher?
"remarquer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,285 in our French list, against #35,682 for "remarqués". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

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 "remarquer" 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 #251,514 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remarquer" 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 #251,514 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