remontéevsremontezTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#11,117
“remontée” frequency rank
#45,834
“remontez” frequency rank
56951
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remontée remontez
Definition Action de remonter. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de remonter.

Same sound, different letters: remontée vs remontez

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

8 ch
remontée
8 ch
remontez

Same sound, different spelling - remontée / remontez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: remontée and remontez 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56951, 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\. remontez is at rank #45,834, 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 56951, this pair ranks #117,950 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remontée vs remontez

Shared letters: emnort. Private to "remontée": é. Private to "remontez": z.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remontez ← ermontez · remmontez · remnotez · remonetz · remonntez · remontezz · remonttez · remontze

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remontée" and "remontez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remontée" is a noun and "remontez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remontée" vs "remontez" - which ranks higher?
"remontée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,117 in our French list, against #45,834 for "remontez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"remontée" and "remontez" 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 "remontez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #117,950 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remontée" and "remontez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remontez vs renoncez". 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 #117,950 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