Ressentiment
\rɛsãtiˈmã:\
The verdict
“Ressentiment” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,138. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,138
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ressentiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ressentiment · Ressentiment · French
Ressentiment · rank #19,138 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,138
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ressentie
Nearest frequency peer: ressentie (-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 « Ressentiment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- représentan…
représentante
80,866 corpus weight
- représentat…
représentatifs
80,865 corpus weight
- ressentie
ressentie
80,864 corpus weight
- Ressentiment
Ressentiment
80,863 corpus weight
- retenez
retenez
80,862 corpus weight
- Rhodes
Rhodes
80,861 corpus weight
What this shows « Ressentiment » 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 | Ressentiment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \rɛsãtiˈmã:\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #19,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ressentiment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Ressentiment (IPA \rɛsãtiˈmã:\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,138 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ressentiment.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ressentiment, with forms such as "erssentiment", "resentiment", and "resesntiment". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ressentent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Ressentiment, spelled R-E-S-S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ressentiment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ressentiment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Rede strotzte vor Ressentiments.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erssentiment
- resentiment
- resesntiment
- ressenitment
- ressenntiment
- ressentiemnt
- ressentimennt
- ressentimentt
- ressentimetn
- ressentimment
- ressentimnet
- ressentmient
- ressenttiment
- ressetniment
- ressnetiment
- rressentiment
- rsesentiment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ressentiment - 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 "Ressentiment", 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).