remonteravsremontésConfusable pair

Which to use

“remontera” and “remontés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#48,150
“remontera” frequency rank
#28,326
“remontés” frequency rank
76476
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remontera remontés
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du futur de remonter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de remonter.

Where the eye mixes remontera and remontés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. remontera runs 9 letters (CVCVCCVCV) against remontés's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
remontera
8 ch
remontés

Visual trap between remontera and remontés

A purely visual mix-up. remontera (\ʁə.mɔ̃.tə.ʁa\) and remontés (\ʁə.mɔ̃.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 76476, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remontera is recorded at frequency rank #48,150, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.mɔ̃.tə.ʁa\. 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 76476, this pair ranks #31,047 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remontera vs remontés

Shared letters: emnort. Private to "remontera": a. Private to "remontés": sé.

"remontera" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCV  ·  "remontés" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remontera ← ermontera · remmontera · remnotera · remonetra · remonntera · remontear · remonterra · remontrea

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remontera" for "remontés" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.mɔ̃.tə.ʁa\ versus \ʁə.mɔ̃.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "remontera" or "remontés"?
"remontés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,326 in our French list, against #48,150 for "remontera". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "remontera" and "remontés" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remontera" 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 #31,047 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remontera" and "remontés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remonta 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 #31,047 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