remotevsrépèteWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#43,634
“remote” frequency rank
#3,959
“répète” frequency rank
47593
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remote répète
Definition Lointain, distant (au propre et au figuré). (Apocope) Répétition.

Letter map: remote vs répète

Shared letters muted; letters that set remote and répète apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. remote and répète follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
remote
6 ch
répète

Role in the sentence - remote and répète

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: remote is anadjective and répèteanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47593, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remote is recorded at frequency rank #43,634, classified as anadj. répète is at rank #3,959, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁe.pɛt\.

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 47593, this pair ranks #185,704 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remote vs répète

Shared letters: ert. Private to "remote": mo. Private to "répète": pèé.

"remote" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "répète" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remote ← ermote · remmote · remoet · remotte · remtoe · reomte · rmeote · rremote

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remote" for "répète" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remote" is an adjective and "répète" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remote" vs "répète" - which ranks higher?
"répète" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,959 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.

What to do next

Pair "remote" vs "répète" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remote" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "répète" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #185,704 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remote" and "répète" 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 #185,704 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