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rezident

noun

rezident is a noun meaning “The head spy in a rezidentura” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-Z-I-D-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rezident is rezidents.

What does rezident mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The head spy in a rezidentura.

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

Forms of rezident

  • rezidents plural
  • resident

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

How common is rezident?

Rezident appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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).

Where does rezident come from?

From Russian резиде́нт (rezidént). Doublet of resiant and resident.

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