removsRémoisWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: remo is a noun, Rémois is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“remo” is a noun and “Rémois” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#39,972
“remo” frequency rank
#42,026
“Rémois” frequency rank
81998
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remo Rémois
Definition Langue munda parlée dans l’État d’Orissa, en Inde. Son code ISO 639-3 est bfw. Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département des Vosges intégrée dans la commune de Longchamp-sous-Châtenois.

Letter map: remo vs Rémois

Shared letters muted; letters that set remo and Rémois apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. remo runs 4 letters (CVCV) against Rémois's 6 (CVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
remo
6 ch
Rémois

Part-of-speech tell for remo / Rémois

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: remo is anoun and Rémoisaname. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 81998, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remo is recorded at frequency rank #39,972, classified as anoun. Rémois is at rank #42,026, tagged as aname, pronounced \ʁe.mwa\.

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 81998, this pair ranks #17,648 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remo vs Rémois

Shared letters: mor. Private to "remo": e. Private to "Rémois": isé.

"remo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "Rémois" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remo ← ermo · remmo · reom · rmeo · rremo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remo" for "Rémois" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remo" is a noun and "Rémois" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remo" vs "Rémois" - which ranks higher?
"remo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,972 in our French list, against #42,026 for "Rémois". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "remo" vs "Rémois" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Rémois" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #17,648 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remo" and "Rémois" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Reis vs Rémois". 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 #17,648 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