remontéevsremontésWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: remontée is a noun, remontés is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“remontée” is a noun and “remontés” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,117
“remontée” frequency rank
#28,326
“remontés” frequency rank
39443
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remontée remontés
Definition Action de remonter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de remonter.

Same sound, different letters: remontée vs remontés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. remontée (CVCVCCVV) and remontés (CVCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
remontée
8 ch
remontés

Same sound, different spelling - remontée / remontés

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: remontée and remontés carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ʁə.mɔ̃.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by a single letter - e in “remontée” becomes s in “remontés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39443, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remontée is recorded at frequency rank #11,117, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.mɔ̃.te\. 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 39443, this pair ranks #247,938 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remontée vs remontés

Shared letters: emnorté. Private to "remontée": -. Private to "remontés": s.

"remontée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV  ·  "remontés" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remontée" for "remontés" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remontée" is a noun and "remontés" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remontée" vs "remontés" - which ranks higher?
"remontée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,117 in our French list, against #28,326 for "remontés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"remontée" and "remontés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remontée" 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 #247,938 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remontée" and "remontés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remontera vs remontés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #247,938 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