resserrer
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,348
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
resserrer is aFrenchverb. It means: Serrer davantage. Pronounced \ʁə.se.ʁe\. Often confused with réserver and resserre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | resserrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.se.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for resserrer is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.se.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,348 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for resserrer, with forms such as "ersserrer", "reserrer", and "resesrrer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "réserver", "resserre", "resserrée", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is resserrer, spelled R-E-S-S-E-R-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Serrer davantage.
- 2Rendre plus proche, plus étroit, en parlant du lien social.
- 3Rendre moins étendu, renfermer dans des bornes plus étroites.
- 4Rendre moins libre, moins lâche.
- 5Constiper.
- 6Abréger, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
- 7Accélérer le rythme d’un montage en raccourcissant ou en supprimant certains plans ou séquences.
- 8Remettre une chose dans le lieu d’où on l’avait tirée et où elle était enfermée.
- 9Réduire sa dépense, devenir plus économe.
- 10Devenir plus rare et plus cher, en parlant de l’argent.
- 11Se restreindre, se limiter, abréger, en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ersserrer,reserrer,resesrrer,resserer,ressererr,resserrerr,resserrre,ressrerer,rresserrer,rseserrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for resserrer
Misspelling Variants of "resserrer"
Frequency rank: #23,348 in French
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Nearby French words
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