résistante
\ʁe.zis.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“résistante” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,585. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,585
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme appartenant à un mouvement de résistance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-resistante · résistante · French
résistante · rank #18,585 · 16 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,585
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH répétée
Nearest frequency peer: répétée (-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 « résistante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- réglage
réglage
81,419 corpus weight
- républicain…
républicaines
81,418 corpus weight
- répétée
répétée
81,417 corpus weight
- résistante
résistante
81,416 corpus weight
- résolue
résolue
81,415 corpus weight
- résolus
résolus
81,414 corpus weight
What this shows « résistante » 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 | résistante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁe.zis.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « résistante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around résistante (IPA \ʁe.zis.tɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,585 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme appartenant à un mouvement de résistance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for résistante, with forms such as "resistante", "rrésistante", and "rséistante". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "restante", "résistent", "résistants", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is résistante, spelled R-É-S-I-S-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Femme appartenant à un mouvement de résistance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how résistante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juive, militante communiste et résistante pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale à Paris, elle était rescapée du camp d’Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- resistante
- rrésistante
- rséistante
- réisstante
- résisatnte
- résisstante
- résistanet
- résistannte
- résistantte
- résistatne
- résistnate
- résisttante
- résitsante
- réssistante
- réssitante
- érsistante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of résistante - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).