ressortit
\ʁə.sɔʁ.ti\
The verdict
“ressortit” is uncommon French (frequency #68,616 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,616
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de ressortir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ressortit · ressortit · French
ressortit · rank #68,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,616
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH renverrait
Nearest frequency peer: renverrait (-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 « ressortit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- remove
remove
31,388 corpus weight
- renoncerait
renoncerait
31,387 corpus weight
- renverrait
renverrait
31,386 corpus weight
- ressortit
ressortit
31,385 corpus weight
- retrancheme…
retranchement
31,384 corpus weight
- revêtant
revêtant
31,383 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ressortit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ressortit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁə.sɔʁ.ti\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ressortit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ressortit is uncommon French at frequency #68,616 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁə.sɔʁ.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ressortit, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 ressortit, spelled R-E-S-S-O-R-T-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de ressortir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de ressortir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ressortit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pouvoirs de police constituent l’enjeu d’une lutte séculaire qui tourne autour de cette question fondamentale : la police est-elle une prérogative municipale ou ressortit-elle au domaine de l’Etat ?
Mais non : il en ressortit que Françoise avait fait l’acquisition de cette faune au cours de la dernière expédition de Charlie et puis l’avait ramenée à son insu, cachée au milieu de son chargement de caisses après l’avoir copieusement soporifiquisée.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).