ressayer
French, verb/ʁe.sɛ.je/
ressayer is spelled R-E-S-S-A-Y-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written French, the 186,002nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ressayer is a French verb meaning “to retry, to try again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Essayer à nouveau”.
What does ressayer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to retry, to try again
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Essayer à nouveau.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ressayer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- ressayant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- ressayé participle past
- ressaye first-person indicative present
- ressaie first-person indicative present
- ressayes indicative present second-person
- ressaies indicative present second-person
- ressayons first-person indicative plural
- ressayez indicative plural present
- ressayent indicative plural present
- ressaient indicative plural present
- ressayais first-person imperfect indicative
- ressayait imperfect indicative singular
- ressayions first-person imperfect indicative
- ressayiez imperfect indicative plural
- ressayaient imperfect indicative plural
- ressayai first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ressayer?
- /ʁe.sɛ.je/
- /ʁe.se.je/
- \ʁe.sɛ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ressayer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ressayer in French?
ressayer appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).