res
\ʁɛ\
The verdict
“res” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,853) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,853
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe rêtre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-res · res · French
res · rank #12,853 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,853
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rencontrées
Nearest frequency peer: rencontrées (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « res »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- redevance
redevance
87,151 corpus weight
- refusait
refusait
87,150 corpus weight
- rencontrées
rencontrées
87,149 corpus weight
- res
res
87,148 corpus weight
- retomber
retomber
87,147 corpus weight
- romance
romance
87,146 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « res » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | res |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « res »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for res is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rh", "RT", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ʁɛ\. Frequency #12,853 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe rêtre.".
res has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rh", "RT", "RP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is res, spelled R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe rêtre.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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