resort

/\ʁi.zɔʁt\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#23,346

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

resort is aFrenchnoun. It means: Centre touristique. Pronounced \ʁi.zɔʁt\. Often confused with rest and résout.

Key facts for resort
PropertyValue
Headwordresort
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁi.zɔʁt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#23,346
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of resort in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for resort is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁi.zɔʁt\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,346 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Centre touristique.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for resort, with forms such as "ersort", "reosrt", and "resorrt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rest", "résout", "revoit", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is resort, spelled R-E-S-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Centre touristique.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ersort,reosrt,resorrt,resortt,resotr,resrot,rresort,rseort

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for resort

Misspelling Variants of "resort"

ersort6reosrt6resorrt7resortt7resotr6resrot6rresort7rseort6
Misspelling Variants of "resort"

Frequency rank: #23,346 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "resort"?
"resort" is spelled R-E-S-O-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁi.zɔʁt\.
What does "resort" mean?
As a noun, "resort" means: Centre touristique.
What words are commonly confused with "resort"?
"resort" is commonly confused with "rest", "résout", "revoit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "resort"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "resort" is \ʁi.zɔʁt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "resort" come from?
"resort" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.