ressent
\ʁə.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“ressent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,884. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,884
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de ressentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ressent · ressent · French
ressent · rank #6,884 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,884
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH revendications
Nearest frequency peer: revendications (+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 « ressent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- refait
refait
93,121 corpus weight
- regretter
regretter
93,120 corpus weight
- rejeté
rejeté
93,119 corpus weight
- ressent
ressent
93,117 corpus weight
- revendicati…
revendications
93,116 corpus weight
- semblerait
semblerait
93,114 corpus weight
What this shows « ressent » 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 | ressent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ressent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ressent (IPA \ʁə.sɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,884 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de ressentir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ressent, with forms such as "erssent", "resent", and "resesnt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rêvent", "revient", "restent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ressent, spelled R-E-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de ressentir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ressent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et aujourd’hui que la province ressent le besoin d’une aide de l’État central, ses chercheurs aiment à rappeler que le Liaoning a contribué, par l’impôt, à la modernisation du reste de la Chine.
L’idiome des indigènes de Rawack, de Waiggiou et de la Terre des Papous se ressent de ce sol riche et fécond et de la nature de son climat étouffant ; c’est un fouilli perpétuel sans nul repos, et l’on croirait que les phrases ne se composent que d’un seul mot, ou plutôt que chacun de leurs mots est une longue phrase.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erssent
- resent
- resesnt
- ressennt
- ressentt
- ressetn
- ressnet
- rressent
- rsesent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ressent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).