resse
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#80,599
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
resse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom donné dans la région de la Sarthe (Orne, Mayenne) à de très grands paniers creux, servant à contenir et à transporter des provisions (légumes et fruits), des marchandises, des habits ou même de... Pronounced \ʁɛs\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | resse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for resse is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #80,599 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for resse in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 resse, spelled R-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom donné dans la région de la Sarthe (Orne, Mayenne) à de très grands paniers creux, servant à contenir et à transporter des provisions (légumes et fruits), des marchandises, des habits ou même des veaux nouveaux-nés. Dépourvues d'anse, elles disposent de deux poignées opposées obtenues grâce à des échancrures ménagées sous le bord du panier. On les porte généralement à deux. À l’origine, elles étaient toujours réalisées en vannerie (osier ou rotin). Aujourd’hui, on en fabrique aussi en treillis de fil métallique galvanisé.
- 2Nom également donné en Wallonie aux grands paniers allongés.
- 3Variante de rasse.
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Frequency rank: #80,599 in French
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