remarqueravsremarquezWhat's the difference?

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

#23,669
“remarquera” frequency rank
#17,544
“remarquez” frequency rank
41213
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remarquera remarquez
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du futur de remarquer. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de remarquer.

Where the eye mixes remarquera and remarquez

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. remarquera runs 10 letters (CVCVCCVVCV) against remarquez's 9 (CVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
remarquera
9 ch
remarquez

Why the eye confuses remarquera with remarquez

A purely visual mix-up. remarquera (\ʁə.maʁ.kə.ʁa\) 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 41213, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remarquera is recorded at frequency rank #23,669, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.maʁ.kə.ʁa\. 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 41213, this pair ranks #234,770 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remarquera vs remarquez

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

"remarquera" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVVCV  ·  "remarquez" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remarquera ← ermarquera · reamrquera · remaqruera · remarqeura · remarqquera · remarquear · remarquerra · remarqurea
  • remarquez ← ermarquez · reamrquez · remaqruez · remarqeuz · remarqquez · remarquezz · remarquze · remarrquez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remarquera" for "remarquez" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.maʁ.kə.ʁa\ versus \ʁə.maʁ.ke\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "remarquera" or "remarquez" show up more?
"remarquez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,544 in our French list, against #23,669 for "remarquera". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remarquera" 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 #234,770 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remarquera" and "remarquez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remarquera 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 #234,770 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