remplissevsremplissentTell them apart

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

#42,008
“remplisse” frequency rank
#16,724
“remplissent” frequency rank
58732
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remplisse remplissent
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de remplir. Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de remplir.

Same sound, different letters: remplisse vs remplissent

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. remplisse runs 9 letters (CVCCCVCCV) against remplissent's 11 (CVCCCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
remplisse
11 ch
remplissent

Same sound, different spelling - remplisse / remplissent

This is the hard kind. remplisse and remplissent are pronounced identically (\ʁɑ̃.plis\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “remplisse” sits inside “remplissent”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58732, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remplisse is recorded at frequency rank #42,008, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.plis\. remplissent is at rank #16,724, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.plis\.

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 58732, this pair ranks #107,268 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remplisse vs remplissent

Shared letters: eilmprs. Private to "remplisse": -. Private to "remplissent": nt.

"remplisse" · 9 letters · shape CVCCCVCCV  ·  "remplissent" · 11 letters · shape CVCCCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remplisse ← ermplisse · remlpisse · remmplisse · rempilsse · remplises · rempllisse · remplsise · rempplisse
  • remplissent ← ermplissent · remlpissent · remmplissent · rempilssent · remplisent · remplisesnt · remplissennt · remplissentt

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "remplisse" and "remplissent" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁɑ̃.plis\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "remplisse" or "remplissent" show up more?
"remplissent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,724 in our French list, against #42,008 for "remplisse". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remplisse" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remplissent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #107,268 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remplisse" and "remplissent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "réglisse vs remplisse". 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 #107,268 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