remettezvsremontezWhich spelling fits?

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

#22,675
“remettez” frequency rank
#45,834
“remontez” frequency rank
68509
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remettez remontez
Definition Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de remettre. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de remonter.

Where the eye mixes remettez and remontez

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. remettez and remontez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
remettez
8 ch
remontez

Visual trap between remettez and remontez

A purely visual mix-up. remettez (\ʁə.mɛ.te\) and remontez (\ʁə.mɔ̃.te\) 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 68509, 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\. remontez is at rank #45,834, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɔ̃.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 68509, this pair ranks #58,894 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remettez vs remontez

Shared letters: emrtz. Private to "remettez": -. Private to "remontez": no.

"remettez" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC  ·  "remontez" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remettez ← ermettez · reemttez · remetetz · remetez · remettezz · remettze · remmettez · remtetez
  • remontez ← ermontez · remmontez · remnotez · remonetz · remonntez · remontezz · remonttez · remontze

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remettez" for "remontez" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.mɛ.te\ versus \ʁə.mɔ̃.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "remettez" vs "remontez" - which ranks higher?
"remettez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,675 in our French list, against #45,834 for "remontez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remettez" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remontez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #58,894 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remettez" and "remontez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remontez vs renoncez". 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 #58,894 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