remetvsRémyConfusable pair

Quick tell: remet is a verb, Rémy is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“remet” is a verb and “Rémy” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#4,370
“remet” frequency rank
#10,404
“Rémy” frequency rank
14774
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remet Rémy
Definition Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de remettre. Nom de famille.

Letter map: remet vs Rémy

Shared letters muted; letters that set remet and Rémy apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

5 ch
remet
4 ch
Rémy

Part-of-speech tell for remet / Rémy

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: remet is averb and Rémyaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14774, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remet is recorded at frequency rank #4,370, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɛ\. Rémy is at rank #10,404, tagged as aname.

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 14774, this pair ranks #395,285 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of remet vs Rémy

Shared letters: mr. Private to "remet": et. Private to "Rémy": .

"remet" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "Rémy" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remetermet · reemt · remett · remmet · remte · rmeet · rremet

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remet" for "Rémy" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remet" is a verb and "Rémy" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remet" vs "Rémy" - which ranks higher?
"remet" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,370 in our French list, against #10,404 for "Rémy". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "remet" vs "Rémy" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Rémy" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #395,285 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remet" and "Rémy" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Reis vs Rémy". 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 #395,285 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