ressemblance
\ʁə.sɑ̃.blɑ̃s\
The verdict
“ressemblance” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,933. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,933
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conformité approximative entre des personnes ou entre des choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ressemblance · ressemblance · French
ressemblance · rank #10,933 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,933
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH right
Nearest frequency peer: right (+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 « ressemblance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- recruté
recruté
89,071 corpus weight
- rein
rein
89,070 corpus weight
- ressemblance
ressemblance
89,068 corpus weight
- right
right
89,067 corpus weight
- roc
roc
89,066 corpus weight
- Roussillon
Roussillon
89,065 corpus weight
What this shows « ressemblance » 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 | ressemblance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.sɑ̃.blɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #10,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ressemblance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around ressemblance (IPA \ʁə.sɑ̃.blɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,933 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for ressemblance, with forms such as "erssemblance", "resemblance", and "resesmblance". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ressemblant", "ressemblances", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ressemblance, spelled R-E-S-S-E-M-B-L-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Conformité approximative entre des personnes ou entre des choses.
- 2Conformité entre l’imitation de l’objet et l’objet imité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ressemblance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il serait superflu de rappeler ici le tableau de l'alcoolisme […] ; mais nous voulons appeler l'attention sur la ressemblance que présentent avec lui le caféisme, le théisme, le cocaisme, états pathologiques beaucoup plus rares et beaucoup moins connus, mais pourtant réels.
L’acheteur d’une paire de chevaux les recherche, souvent à tort, au point de vue de la ressemblance, au lieu d’exiger la qualité ; le marchand est prévenu d’avance, aussi associe-t-il des animaux très-différents quant à leur valeur, pourvu qu’ils aient même taille et même robe ; […].
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erssemblance
- resemblance
- resesmblance
- ressebmlance
- ressembalnce
- ressembblance
- ressemblacne
- ressemblancce
- ressemblanec
- ressemblannce
- ressembllance
- ressemblnace
- ressemlbance
- ressemmblance
- ressmeblance
- rressemblance
- rsesemblance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ressemblance - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ressemblance", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).