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rester/restez/restée/restées/restés

"rester" (#660 written frequency) beats "restez" (#6,747) in this 5-word /\ʁɛs.te\/ cluster. Size rank #101 of 9,139 French groups.

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Frequency splits the cluster

These 5 spellings keep the same /\ʁɛs.te\/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "rester" leads at #660, with "restez" trailing at #6,747.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Single-letter fork: "rester" keeps r, "restez" writes z at letter 6.
  • Shared stem "rest" then splits - "rester" (6 letters) vs "restée" (6).
  • Shared stem "rest" then splits - "rester" (6 letters) vs "restées" (7).
  • Shared stem "rest" then splits - "rester" (6 letters) vs "restés" (6).
  • Shared stem "rest" then splits - "restez" (6 letters) vs "restée" (6).
  • Shared stem "rest" then splits - "restez" (6 letters) vs "restées" (7).
  • Shared stem "rest" then splits - "restez" (6 letters) vs "restés" (6).
  • Shared stem "restée" then splits - "restée" (6 letters) vs "restées" (7).
  • Single-letter fork: "restée" keeps e, "restés" writes s at letter 6.
  • Shared stem "resté" then splits - "restées" (7 letters) vs "restés" (6).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across rester, restez, restée, restées, restés: erst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • rester

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory erst · no private letters vs siblings

  • restez

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory erstz · private z

  • restée

    6 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVV

    Inventory ersté · private é

  • restées

    7 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCCVVC

    Inventory ersté · private é

  • restés

    6 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCCVC

    Inventory ersté · private é

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "rester" when you mean: Continuer d’être à un endroit ou dans un état.
  • Write "restez" when you mean: Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rester.
  • Write "restée" when you mean: Féminin singulier de resté.
  • Write "restées" when you mean: Féminin pluriel de resté.
  • Write "restés" when you mean: Masculin pluriel de resté.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • rester ← erster · resetr · resster · resterr · restre · restter
  • restez ← erstez · resetz · resstez · restezz · resttez · restze

Each spelling

rester

verb · /\ʁɛs.te\/ · #660 frequency

Continuer d’être à un endroit ou dans un état.

restez

verb · /\ʁɛs.te\/ · #6,747 frequency

Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rester.

restée

/\ʁɛs.te\/

Féminin singulier de resté.

restées

/\ʁɛs.te\/

Féminin pluriel de resté.

restés

/\ʁɛs.te\/

Masculin pluriel de resté.

Nearby French homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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