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

#4,277
“remercier” frequency rank
#49,322
“remerciera” frequency rank
53599
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remercier remerciera
Definition Rendre grâce, exprimer la gratitude. Troisième personne du singulier du futur de remercier.

Where the eye mixes remercier and remerciera

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

9 ch
remercier
10 ch
remerciera

Visual trap between remercier and remerciera

A purely visual mix-up. remercier (\ʁə.mɛʁ.sje\) and remerciera (\ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁa\) 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 extra letter(s) - “remercier” sits inside “remerciera”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53599, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remercier is recorded at frequency rank #4,277, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɛʁ.sje\. remerciera is at rank #49,322, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁa\.

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 53599, this pair ranks #139,632 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remercier vs remerciera

Shared letters: ceimr. Private to "remercier": -. Private to "remerciera": a.

"remercier" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC  ·  "remerciera" · 10 letters · shape CVCVCCVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remercier ← ermercier · reemrcier · remecrier · remerccier · remerceir · remercierr · remercire · remericer
  • remerciera ← ermerciera · reemrciera · remecriera · remercciera · remerceira · remerciear · remercierra · remercirea

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remercier" for "remerciera" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.mɛʁ.sje\ versus \ʁə.mɛʁ.si.ʁa\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "remercier" or "remerciera"?
"remercier" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,277 in our French list, against #49,322 for "remerciera". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "remercier" and "remerciera" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remercier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remerciera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #139,632 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remercier" and "remerciera" 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 #139,632 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