resister
\re.sis.ˈtɛr\
The verdict
“resister” is uncommon French (frequency #61,090 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,090
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Résister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-resister · resister · French
resister · rank #61,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,090
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reproductibil…
Nearest frequency peer: reproductibilité (-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 « resister »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- renoncements
renoncements
38,914 corpus weight
- repaires
repaires
38,913 corpus weight
- reproductib…
reproductibilité
38,912 corpus weight
- resister
resister
38,911 corpus weight
- respirable
respirable
38,910 corpus weight
- ressac
ressac
38,909 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « resister » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | resister |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \re.sis.ˈtɛr\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « resister » en français
Rare enough to double-check
resister is uncommon French at frequency #61,090 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \re.sis.ˈtɛr\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Résister.".
resister has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is resister, spelled R-E-S-I-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Résister.
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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