resident
res·is·ent/ˈɹɛzɪdənt/noun, adjective
resident is spelled R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T, 3 syllables: res·is·ent. The wrong spelling people search most is recident: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 263 of all searches for the word. Resident is a noun meaning “A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area”. The plural of resident is residents.
How many letters and syllables are in resident?
| Letters | 8: R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: res·is·ent |
| In writing | 24 times per million words; the 3,752nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, recident, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell resident?
Resident is spelled R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 261 of the searches for resident in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is resident?
Resident appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd 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 resident?
- /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/
- [ˈɹɛzɪdənt] ~ [ˈɹɛzɪdn̩t]
Resident has 3 syllables, split res·is·ent in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-resident.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with resident?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as resident.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: inserted.
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 resident
- residents plural
- more resident comparative
- most resident superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does resident mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
- 2
A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
- 3
A physician receiving postgraduate medical training in a hospital or clinic.
She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.
- 4
A diplomatic representative who resides in a foreign country, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
- 5
A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
- 6
Alternative form of rezident.
adjective
- 1
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
resident in the city or in the country
- 2
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
He is our resident computer expert.
- 3
obsoleteFixed; stable; certain.
- 4
Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate resident?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of resident: resid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Resident in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | résident, résidente, habitant, habitante , interne |
| German | Anwohner, Anwohnerin, Anrainer, Anrainerin, Einwohner, Einwohnerin |
| Portuguese | morador, residente, habitante, íncola |
| Spanish | residente, habitante, munícipe |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does resident come from?
From Middle English resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), equivalent to reside + -ent, from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“to sit”). Doublet of resiant and rezident. The espionage sense is a semantic loan from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént). (physician): So called because in the 19th century they resided in the hospital dormitories.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).