remontavsremontantTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#46,992
“remonta” frequency rank
#11,287
“remontant” frequency rank
58279
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remonta remontant
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe remonter. Qui repousse à l’arrière-saison, qui redonne des fleurs, des fruits.

Letter map: remonta vs remontant

Shared letters muted; letters that set remonta and remontant apart highlighted. Shared run: 7. remonta runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against remontant's 9 (CVCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
remonta
9 ch
remontant

Part-of-speech tell for remonta / remontant

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: remonta is averb and remontantanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “remonta” sits inside “remontant”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58279, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remonta is recorded at frequency rank #46,992, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɔ̃.ta\. remontant is at rank #11,287, tagged as anadj.

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 58279, this pair ranks #109,979 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remonta vs remontant

Shared letters: aemnort. Private to "remonta": -. Private to "remontant": -.

"remonta" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "remontant" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remontaermonta · remmonta · remnota · remonat · remonnta · remontta · remotna · reomnta
  • remontantermontant · remmontant · remnotant · remonatnt · remonntant · remontannt · remontantt · remontatn

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remonta" for "remontant" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remonta" is a verb and "remontant" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remonta" vs "remontant" - which ranks higher?
"remontant" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,287 in our French list, against #46,992 for "remonta". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "remonta" vs "remontant" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remonta" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remontant" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #109,979 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remonta" and "remontant" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remonta vs renonça". 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 #109,979 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