ressusciter

\ʁe.sy.si.te\

/\ʁe.sy.si.te\/ verb

The verdict

“ressusciter” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,400. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,400
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ramener de la mort à la vie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ressusciter · ressusciter · French

ressusciter · rank #22,400 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #22,400
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH représentativ…

Nearest frequency peer: représentativité (-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 « ressusciter »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « ressusciter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ressusciter vs ressuscité
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ressusciter
PropertyValue
Headwordressusciter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁe.sy.si.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#22,400
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ressusciter »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).ressusciterse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « représentativité » (#22,399), « retournant » (#22,401), « reporters » (#22,398). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « ressusciter » est au #22,400. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around ressusciter (IPA \ʁe.sy.si.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,400 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for ressusciter, with forms such as "erssusciter", "resssuciter", and "ressucsiter". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ressuscité", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 ressusciter, spelled R-E-S-S-U-S-C-I-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ramener de la mort à la vie.
  2. 2
    Redonner de la vigueur, contre tout espoir.
  3. 3
    Renouveler, faire revivre.
  4. 4
    Revenir de la mort à la vie.
  5. 5
    Retrouver l'ardeur de vivre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ressusciter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Peut-on considérer comme des fous théomanes tant de saints personnages qui depuis Jésus-Christ ont ressuscité des morts ? Tous ces miracles consignés dans les procédures de canonisation, quel nom faut-il donc leur donner? Comment l'Église s'est-elle donc si lourdement trompée ?
  2. Certains membres du Politburo souhaitent au départ conserver son corps par cryogénisation (le congeler, donc) puis le ressusciter lorsque les développements de la médecine auront fait suffisamment de progrès — les autorités vont même jusqu’à acquérir le matériel nécessaire pour y parvenir. — (Mikal Hem, Et si je devenais dictateur, traduit du norvégien pa…

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • erssusciter
  • resssuciter
  • ressucsiter
  • ressuscciter
  • ressuscietr
  • ressusciterr
  • ressuscitre
  • ressuscitter
  • ressusctier
  • ressusicter
  • ressussciter
  • resusciter
  • resussciter
  • rressusciter
  • rsesusciter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ressusciter - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

erssusciter2resssuciter2ressucsiter2ressuscciter1ressuscietr2ressusciterr1ressuscitre2ressuscitter1
Edit distance from "ressusciter"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ressusciter"?
"ressusciter" is spelled R-E-S-S-U-S-C-I-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.sy.si.te\.
What does "ressusciter" mean?
As a verb, "ressusciter" means: Ramener de la mort à la vie.
What words are commonly confused with "ressusciter"?
"ressusciter" is commonly confused with "ressuscité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ressusciter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ressusciter" is \ʁe.sy.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ressusciter" come from?
"ressusciter" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ressusciter", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list