ressentiments
\ʁə.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“ressentiments” is uncommon French (frequency #56,224 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,224
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ressentiment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ressentiments · ressentiments · French
ressentiments · rank #56,224 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,224
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH repubblica
Nearest frequency peer: repubblica (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ressentiments »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- repartant
repartant
43,780 corpus weight
- repubblica
repubblica
43,778 corpus weight
- ressentimen…
ressentiments
43,777 corpus weight
- ressortis
ressortis
43,776 corpus weight
- retombera
retombera
43,775 corpus weight
- retournerons
retournerons
43,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ressentiments » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ressentiments |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #56,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ressentiments » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ressentiments is uncommon French at frequency #56,224 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁə.sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ressentiment.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ressentiments, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 ressentiments, spelled R-E-S-S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ressentiment.
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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