résistait
\ʁe.zis.tɛ\
The verdict
“résistait” is uncommon French (frequency #60,357 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,357
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de résister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-resistait · résistait · French
résistait · rank #60,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,357
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH réjouissance
Nearest frequency peer: réjouissance (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « résistait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- réinvestis
réinvestis
39,647 corpus weight
- réjouie
réjouie
39,646 corpus weight
- réjouissance
réjouissance
39,645 corpus weight
- résistait
résistait
39,644 corpus weight
- rétraction
rétraction
39,643 corpus weight
- réussirait
réussirait
39,642 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « résistait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | résistait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.zis.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « résistait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
résistait is uncommon French at frequency #60,357 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁe.zis.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de résister.".
Zero misspellings are on record for résistait in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is résistait, spelled R-É-S-I-S-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de résister.
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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