ressortissant
\ʁə.sɔʁ.ti.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“ressortissant” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,477
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ressortit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ressortissant · ressortissant · French
ressortissant · rank #25,477 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #25,477
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH respective
Nearest frequency peer: respective (-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 « ressortissant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- représentera
représentera
74,528 corpus weight
- repérée
repérée
74,527 corpus weight
- resources
resources
74,526 corpus weight
- respective
respective
74,525 corpus weight
- ressortissa…
ressortissant
74,524 corpus weight
- reçoive
reçoive
74,522 corpus weight
What this shows « ressortissant » 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 | ressortissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁə.sɔʁ.ti.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #25,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ressortissant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around ressortissant (IPA \ʁə.sɔʁ.ti.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,477 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui ressortit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for ressortissant, with forms such as "erssortissant", "resortissant", and "resosrtissant". 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, "ressortissants", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ressortissant, spelled R-E-S-S-O-R-T-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui ressortit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ressortissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tribunaux de plusieurs provinces étaient ressortissants au Parlement de Paris.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erssortissant
- resortissant
- resosrtissant
- ressoritssant
- ressorrtissant
- ressortisant
- ressortisasnt
- ressortissannt
- ressortissantt
- ressortissatn
- ressortissnat
- ressortsisant
- ressorttissant
- ressotrissant
- ressrotissant
- rressortissant
- rsesortissant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ressortissant - 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 "ressortissant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).