ressentait
\ʁə.sɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“ressentait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,159. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,159
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de ressentir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ressentait · ressentait · French
ressentait · rank #26,159 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,159
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH reproduise
Nearest frequency peer: reproduise (-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 « ressentait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- remplissez
remplissez
73,846 corpus weight
- replonger
replonger
73,844 corpus weight
- reproduise
reproduise
73,843 corpus weight
- ressentait
ressentait
73,842 corpus weight
- retarde
retarde
73,841 corpus weight
- root
root
73,840 corpus weight
What this shows « ressentait » 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 | ressentait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.sɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ressentait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around ressentait (IPA \ʁə.sɑ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,159 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de ressentir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ressentait, with forms such as "erssentait", "resentait", and "resesntait". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "ressenti", "ressentir", "ressentie", 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. The correct French form is ressentait, spelled R-E-S-S-E-N-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de ressentir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ressentait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant lui, Maxence Caqueret était venu, comme chaque semaine ou presque, nous répéter que le groupe ressentait « énormément de frustration et de manque de confiance ».
Le cinquième jour, la terre s’évapora à l’horizon, et l’océan recouvrit l’espace à perte de vue. C’était comme le corps fluide d’une bête gigantesque et imprévisible dont Gabriel Morange guettait le moindre mouvement. Il ressentait sa respiration puissante sous la coque, et la savait capable à tout moment de les entraîner vers le fond s’il lui en prenait…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erssentait
- resentait
- resesntait
- ressenatit
- ressenntait
- ressentaitt
- ressentati
- ressentiat
- ressenttait
- ressetnait
- ressnetait
- rressentait
- rsesentait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ressentait - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).