remettevsrépétéeWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: remette is a verb, répétée is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#17,804
“remette” frequency rank
#18,584
“répétée” frequency rank
36388
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remette répétée
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de remettre. Féminin singulier de répété.

Where the eye mixes remette and répétée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. remette (CVCVCCV) and répétée (CVCVCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
remette
7 ch
répétée

Why the eye confuses remette with répétée

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: remette is \ʁə.mɛt\ while répétée is \ʁe.pe.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 4 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36388, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remette is recorded at frequency rank #17,804, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɛt\. répétée is at rank #18,584, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁe.pe.te\.

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 36388, this pair ranks #269,969 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remette vs répétée

Shared letters: ert. Private to "remette": m. Private to "répétée": pé.

"remette" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "répétée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remette ← ermette · reemtte · remete · remetet · remmette · remtete · rmeette · rremette

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remette" and "répétée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remette" is a verb and "répétée" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remette" vs "répétée" - which ranks higher?
"remette" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #17,804 in our French list, against #18,584 for "répétée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "remette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "répétée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #269,969 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remette" and "répétée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "répétée vs revêtue". 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 #269,969 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