ressource
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,110
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
ressource is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce à quoi on a recours, ce qui peut fournir ce dont on a besoin. Pronounced \ʁə.suʁs\. It ranks #7,110 in French word frequency. Often confused with ressources and ressourcer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ressource |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁə.suʁs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ressource is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁə.suʁs\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,110 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for ressource, with forms such as "erssource", "resosurce", and "resource". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ressources", "ressourcer", "ressorte", and more, 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 ressource, spelled R-E-S-S-O-U-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ce à quoi on a recours, ce qui peut fournir ce dont on a besoin.
- 2Moyens qu'offre une chose par son usage.
- 3Services étatiques ou non, à but lucratif ou non, à l'intention des personnes aux prises avec des problèmes psychologiques ou sociaux.
- 4Ce dont on a besoin ; moyen d’action.
- 5Manœuvre de redressement brusque d'un avion qui sort du piqué pour faire une remontée.
- 6Dans un vêtement, réserve d’étoffe ménagée en prévision d’une expansion.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erssource,resosurce,resource,ressoruce,ressoucre,ressourcce,ressourec,ressourrce,ressuorce,rressource,rsesource
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ressource
Misspelling Variants of "ressource"
Frequency rank: #7,110 in French
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