Ressort
\ʁɛˈsoːɐ̯\
The verdict
“Ressort” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,279. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,279
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ressort, compétence, département, (étendue d'une juridiction, compétence d'un organisme administratif).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ressort · Ressort · French
Ressort · rank #4,279 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,279
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH respectivement
Nearest frequency peer: respectivement (-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 « Ressort »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- remarquable
remarquable
95,725 corpus weight
- remercier
remercier
95,724 corpus weight
- respectivem…
respectivement
95,723 corpus weight
- Ressort
Ressort
95,722 corpus weight
- retrouvent
retrouvent
95,721 corpus weight
- retrouvez
retrouvez
95,720 corpus weight
What this shows « Ressort » 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 | Ressort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛˈsoːɐ̯\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ressort »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Ressort (IPA \ʁɛˈsoːɐ̯\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,279 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ressort, compétence, département, (étendue d'une juridiction, compétence d'un organisme administratif).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ressort, with forms such as "erssort", "resosrt", and "ressorrt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "ressorts", "ressorti", "ressorte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Ressort, spelled R-E-S-S-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Ressort, compétence, département, (étendue d'une juridiction, compétence d'un organisme administratif).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ressort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das ist mein Ressort.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erssort
- resosrt
- ressorrt
- ressortt
- ressotr
- ressrot
- rressort
- rsesort
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ressort - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Ressort", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).