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res

/ɹeɪz/noun, verb

res is spelled R-E-S: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, res means “plural of re” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of res is reses.

How many letters and syllables are in res?

Letters3: R-E-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.2 times per million words; the 9,735th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is res?

Res appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce res?

  • /ɹeɪz/

As a noun (“Clipping of reservation or reserve (semiautonomous…”): /ɹɛz/.

Res has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-res.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with res

Also written: residence.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with res?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as res.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ser, ers.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of res

  • reses plural
  • resses present, singular, he/she/it
  • ress present, singular, he/she/it
  • ressing participle, present
  • resing participle, present
  • ressed participle, past
  • resed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does res mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    plural of re (a form of re)

  2. 2

    CanadaUSinformalClipping of reservation or reserve (semiautonomous Indigenous territory).

  3. 3

    CanadaClipping of residence.

  4. 4

    Clipping of resolution (of a computer display or image).

    Can I get that in a higher res?

  5. 5

    Clipping of reservoir (from computer water cooling).

  6. 6

    Clipping of resurrection.

    Can I get a res please?

  7. 7

    Clipping of resistance.

    Your magic res doesn't need to be that high.

noun

as RES
  1. 1

    Initialism of red ear syndrome.

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of radio echo sounding

noun

as REs
  1. 1

    plural of RE (a form of RE)

verb

  1. 1

    Clipping of resurrect.

    You have the skills, right? Res me please.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does res come from?

From re + -s.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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