remontevsremoteWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#3,499
“remonte” frequency rank
#43,634
“remote” frequency rank
47133
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remonte remote
Definition Fourniture de chevaux pour la cavalerie. Lointain, distant (au propre et au figuré).

Letter map: remonte vs remote

Shared letters muted; letters that set remonte and remote apart highlighted. Shared run: 6.

7 ch
remonte
6 ch
remote

Part-of-speech tell for remonte / remote

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: remonte is anoun and remoteanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47133, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remonte is recorded at frequency rank #3,499, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.mɔ̃t\. 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 47133, this pair ranks #189,304 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remonte vs remote

Shared letters: emort. Private to "remonte": n. Private to "remote": -.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remonteermonte · remmonte · remnote · remonet · remonnte · remontte · remotne · reomnte
  • remoteermote · remmote · remoet · remotte · remtoe · reomte · rmeote · rremote

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "remonte" and "remote" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remonte" is a noun and "remote" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remonte" vs "remote" - which ranks higher?
"remonte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,499 in our French list, against #43,634 for "remote". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "remonte" and "remote".

  • Full dictionary entry for "remonte" 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 #189,304 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remonte" and "remote" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rejoué vs remote". 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 #189,304 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