remontavsremoteConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#46,992
“remonta” frequency rank
#43,634
“remote” frequency rank
90626
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remonta remote
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe remonter. Lointain, distant (au propre et au figuré).

Letter map: remonta vs remote

Shared letters muted; letters that set remonta and remote apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch
remonta
6 ch
remote

Part-of-speech tell for remonta / remote

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: remonta is averb and remoteanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 90626, 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\. remote is at rank #43,634, 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 90626, this pair ranks #4,613 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remonta vs remote

Shared letters: emort. Private to "remonta": an. Private to "remote": -.

"remonta" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "remote" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remontaermonta · remmonta · remnota · remonat · remonnta · remontta · remotna · reomnta
  • remoteermote · remmote · remoet · remotte · remtoe · reomte · rmeote · rremote

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remonta" for "remote" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remonta" is a verb and "remote" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remonta" vs "remote" - which ranks higher?
"remote" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #43,634 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

Pair "remonta" vs "remote" 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 "remote" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #4,613 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remonta" and "remote" 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 #4,613 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