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réséda

French, noun/ʁe.ze.da/

réséda is spelled R-É-S-É-D-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Réséda is a French masculine noun meaning “reseda, mignonette (plant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante herbacée, à feuilles alternes, qui a des fleurs irrégulières, d’un jaune verdâtre et d’une odeur…”.

What does réséda mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinereseda, mignonette (plant)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Plante herbacée, à feuilles alternes, qui a des fleurs irrégulières, d’un jaune verdâtre et d’une odeur agréable. 2. De couleur vert pâle.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of réséda

  • résédas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce réséda?

  • /ʁe.ze.da/
  • \ʁe.ze.da\
  • [ʁe.ze.da]

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to réséda

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is réséda in French?

réséda appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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