réseau
\ʁe.zo\
The verdict
“réseau” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #699 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #699
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble d’objets ou de personnes connectés ou maintenus en liaison.
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 | réseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.zo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “réseau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for réseau is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.zo\. Corpus data places it at rank #699 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for réseau, with forms such as "reseau", "rréseau", and "rséeau". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "resta", "reset", "revenu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is réseau, spelled R-É-S-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Ensemble d’objets ou de personnes connectés ou maintenus en liaison.
- 2Ensemble des liaisons ainsi établies.
- 3rets, filet, tissu de mailles.
- 4Il se dit spécialement d’un ouvrage de fil, de soie, de fil d’or ou d’argent, fait par petites mailles, en forme de filet.
- 5Entrelacement de vaisseaux sanguins, de nerfs, etc.
- 6(géologie, cristallographie, cartographie, bâtiment, géodésie) Figure géométrique, maillage.
- 7les réseaux permettent, par interférence, de réaliser des filtres, par exemple : réseau de diffraction, réseau de Fraunhofer, réseau de Bragg (utilisés dans les systèmes WDM et pour l’analyse spectroscopique par dispersion de longueur d’onde).
- 8Ensemble des voies.
- 9Ensemble des liaisons (fibre optique, fil de cuivre, onde radioélectrique), des machines (routeur, ordinateur, serveur…) et des logiciels qui permettent une communication de l’information entre chaque machine de l’ensemble.
- 10Forme de groupe discret.
- 11Pour des trames abstraites.
- 12Synonyme de réticulum ou bonnet.
- 13Synonyme de géomètre à barreaux (papillon).
- 14Circuit intégré conçu à partir de microstructures élémentaires organisées le plus souvent en matrice.
- 15Macromolécule très ramifiée dans laquelle chaque unité constitutive est reliée à chacune des autres ainsi qu’aux limites de la phase macroscopique par de nombreux chemins permanents à travers la macromolécule.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: reseau,rréseau,rséeau,réesau,résaeu,réseua,résseau,érseau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of réseau - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “réseau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-É-S-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁe.zo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “resta” - see the side-by-side comparison. réseau vs resta
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.