resident
\ˈɹɛz.ɪ.d(ə)nt\
The verdict
“resident” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,943
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant (d’un quartier, d’une ville, etc.).
Corpus desk
Index FR-resident · resident · French
resident · rank #27,943 · 12 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,943
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repoussés
Nearest frequency peer: repoussés (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « resident »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- repassé
repassé
72,061 corpus weight
- repoussent
repoussent
72,060 corpus weight
- repoussés
repoussés
72,059 corpus weight
- resident
resident
72,058 corpus weight
- resteras
resteras
72,056 corpus weight
- RGPD
RGPD
72,055 corpus weight
What this shows « resident » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | resident |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹɛz.ɪ.d(ə)nt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « resident »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around resident (IPA \ˈɹɛz.ɪ.d(ə)nt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,943 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for resident, with forms such as "ersident", "reisdent", and "resdient". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "revient", "restent", "ressent", 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, 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 resident, spelled R-E-S-I-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Habitant (d’un quartier, d’une ville, etc.).
- 2Riverain (d’une rue, d’une voie ferrée, etc.).
- 3Externe (dans un hôpital).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how resident appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After being an intern, one becomes a resident in order to learn a medical specialty.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ersident
- reisdent
- resdient
- residdent
- residennt
- residentt
- residetn
- residnet
- resiednt
- ressident
- rresident
- rseident
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of resident - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "resident", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).