Which to use
“remercier” and “remerciez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,277
- “remercier” frequency rank
- #31,685
- “remerciez” frequency rank
- 35962
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | remercier | remerciez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Rendre grâce, exprimer la gratitude. | Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de remercier. |
Same sound, different letters: remercier vs remerciez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. remercier and remerciez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Ear matches; page differs - remercier and remerciez
This is the hard kind. remercier and remerciez are pronounced identically (\ʁə.mɛʁ.sje\) 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 differ by a single letter - r in “remercier” becomes z in “remerciez”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35962, 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\. remerciez is at rank #31,685, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɛʁ.sje\.
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 35962, this pair ranks #272,956 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of remercier vs remerciez
Shared letters: ceimr. Private to "remercier": -. Private to "remerciez": z.
"remercier" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC · "remerciez" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "remercier" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "remerciez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #272,956 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "remercier" and "remerciez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remerciera vs remerciez". 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 #272,956 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.