remontantvsremontentWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#11,287
“remontant” frequency rank
#10,569
“remontent” frequency rank
21856
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remontant remontent
Definition Qui repousse à l’arrière-saison, qui redonne des fleurs, des fruits. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de remonter.

Letter map: remontant vs remontent

Shared letters muted; letters that set remontant and remontent apart highlighted. Shared run: 8.

9 ch
remontant
9 ch
remontent

Part-of-speech tell for remontant / remontent

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: remontant is anadjective and remontentaverb. On the page they differ by a single letter - a in “remontant” becomes e in “remontent”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21856, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remontant is recorded at frequency rank #11,287, classified as anadj. remontent is at rank #10,569, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɔ̃t\.

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 21856, this pair ranks #361,083 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of remontant vs remontent

Shared letters: emnort. Private to "remontant": a. Private to "remontent": -.

"remontant" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC  ·  "remontent" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remontantermontant · remmontant · remnotant · remonatnt · remonntant · remontannt · remontantt · remontatn
  • remontentermontent · remmontent · remnotent · remonetnt · remonntent · remontennt · remontentt · remontetn

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remontant" for "remontent" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remontant" is an adjective and "remontent" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remontant" vs "remontent" - which ranks higher?
"remontent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,569 in our French list, against #11,287 for "remontant". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "remontant" and "remontent".

  • Full dictionary entry for "remontant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remontent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #361,083 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remontant" and "remontent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remontent vs remontera". 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 #361,083 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