résidant

Name: résidant, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ʁe.zi.dɑ̃\

/\ʁe.zi.dɑ̃\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“résidant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,296. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#11,296
frequency rank, French: 5,742
“R” headwords: 13
tracked misspellings: 15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui réside, qui demeure.

Corpus desk

Index FR-residant · résidant · French

résidant · rank #11,296 · 13 variants · 15 confusables

FREQ-MID #11,296
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
VAR-HIGH 13 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,742
PHOTO-FINISH réduisant

Nearest frequency peer: réduisant (-2 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.

revendicati…

88,709
réacteurs

88,708
réduisant

88,707
résidant

88,705
saintes

88,703
Sandra

88,702

What this shows « résidant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

résidant vs restant

63% similar

résidant vs retirant

63% similar

résidant vs resident

75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for résidant
Property	Value
Headword	résidant
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\ʁe.zi.dɑ̃\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#11,296
Misspellings tracked	13
Confusable pairs	15
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « résidant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).résidantse place ici:

#11,296

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « réduisant » (#11,294), « saintes » (#11,298), « réacteurs » (#11,293). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « résidant » est au #11,296. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around résidant (IPA \ʁe.zi.dɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,296 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui réside, qui demeure.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for résidant, with forms such as "residant", "rrésidant", and "rséidant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "restant", "retirant", "resident", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is résidant, spelled R-É-S-I-D-A-N-T.

Definition

1
Qui réside, qui demeure.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how résidant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Le lieu où elle était résidante.
Membre résidant d’une académie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

residant
rrésidant
rséidant
réisdant
résdiant
résiadnt
résidannt
résidantt
résidatn
résiddant
résidnat
réssidant
érsidant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of résidant - 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.

Edit distance from "résidant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "résidant"?

"résidant" is spelled R-É-S-I-D-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.zi.dɑ̃\.

What does "résidant" mean?

As an adjective, "résidant" means: Qui réside, qui demeure.

What words are commonly confused with "résidant"?

"résidant" is commonly confused with "restant", "retirant", "resident". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "résidant"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "résidant" is \ʁe.zi.dɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "résidant" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "résidant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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