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

#46,992
“remonta” frequency rank
#28,326
“remontés” frequency rank
75318
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remonta remontés
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe remonter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de remonter.

Where the eye mixes remonta and remontés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. remonta runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against remontés's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
remonta
8 ch
remontés

Why the eye confuses remonta with remontés

A purely visual mix-up. remonta (\ʁə.mɔ̃.ta\) and remontés (\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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 75318, 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\. remontés is at rank #28,326, 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 75318, this pair ranks #34,434 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remonta vs remontés

Shared letters: emnort. Private to "remonta": a. Private to "remontés": .

"remonta" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "remontés" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remontaermonta · remmonta · remnota · remonat · remonnta · remontta · remotna · reomnta

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remonta" for "remontés" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.mɔ̃.ta\ versus \ʁə.mɔ̃.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "remonta" or "remontés"?
"remontés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,326 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "remonta" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remontés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #34,434 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remonta" and "remontés" 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 #34,434 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