remarquésvsremarquezConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#35,682
“remarqués” frequency rank
#17,544
“remarquez” frequency rank
53226
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: remarqués vs remarquez

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

9 ch
remarqués
9 ch
remarquez

Same sound, different spelling - remarqués / remarquez

This is the hard kind. remarqués and remarquez 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 53226, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remarqués is recorded at frequency rank #35,682, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.maʁ.ke\. 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 53226, this pair ranks #142,212 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remarqués vs remarquez

Shared letters: aemqru. Private to "remarqués": sé. Private to "remarquez": z.

"remarqués" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC  ·  "remarquez" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remarquez ← ermarquez · reamrquez · remaqruez · remarqeuz · remarqquez · remarquezz · remarquze · remarrquez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remarqués" and "remarquez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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: "remarqués" 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 #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

"remarqués" and "remarquez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remarqués" 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 #142,212 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remarqués" and "remarquez" 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 #142,212 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