remettezvsremettreWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

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

#22,675
“remettez” frequency rank
#1,455
“remettre” frequency rank
24130
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remettez remettre
Definition Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de remettre. Mettre une chose à l’endroit où elle était auparavant.

Where the eye mixes remettez and remettre

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. remettez (CVCVCCVC) and remettre (CVCVCCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
remettez
8 ch
remettre

Why the eye confuses remettez with remettre

A purely visual mix-up. remettez (\ʁə.mɛ.te\) and remettre (\ʁə.mɛtʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24130, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remettez is recorded at frequency rank #22,675, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɛ.te\. remettre is at rank #1,455, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɛtʁ\.

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 24130, this pair ranks #348,416 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of remettez vs remettre

Shared letters: emrt. Private to "remettez": z. Private to "remettre": -.

"remettez" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC  ·  "remettre" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remettez ← ermettez · reemttez · remetetz · remetez · remettezz · remettze · remmettez · remtetez
  • remettre ← ermettre · reemttre · remetre · remetrte · remetter · remettrre · remmettre · remtetre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remettez" and "remettre" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.mɛ.te\ versus \ʁə.mɛtʁ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "remettez" or "remettre"?
"remettre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,455 in our French list, against #22,675 for "remettez". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "remettez" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remettre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #348,416 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remettez" and "remettre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remettez vs remontez". 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 #348,416 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