remerciantvsremercientTell them apart

Quick tell: remerciant is a adjective, remercient is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“remerciant” is an adjective and “remercient” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,684
“remerciant” frequency rank
#35,245
“remercient” frequency rank
66929
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remerciant remercient
Definition Qui remercie, qui exprime de la gratitude. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de remercier.

Where the eye mixes remerciant and remercient

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. remerciant and remercient follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

10 ch
remerciant
10 ch
remercient

Look-alike desk: remerciant vs remercient

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: remerciant is \ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɑ̃\ while remercient is \ʁə.mɛʁ.si\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “remerciant” becomes e in “remercient”, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66929, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remerciant is recorded at frequency rank #31,684, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.mɛʁ.sjɑ̃\. remercient is at rank #35,245, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɛʁ.si\.

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 66929, this pair ranks #65,671 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remerciant vs remercient

Shared letters: ceimnrt. Private to "remerciant": a. Private to "remercient": -.

"remerciant" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVVCC  ·  "remercient" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remerciant ← ermerciant · reemrciant · remecriant · remercaint · remercciant · remerciannt · remerciantt · remerciatn
  • remercient ← ermercient · reemrcient · remecrient · remerccient · remerceint · remerciennt · remercientt · remercietn

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remerciant" and "remercient" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remerciant" is an adjective and "remercient" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "remerciant" or "remercient"?
"remerciant" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,684 in our French list, against #35,245 for "remercient". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remerciant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remercient" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #65,671 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remerciant" and "remercient" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remercient vs remerciera". 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 #65,671 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