rest
\ʁɛ\
The verdict
“rest” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,744
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe rêtre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rest · rest · French
rest · rank #24,744 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,744
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rescousse
Nearest frequency peer: rescousse (-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 « rest »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- remplaçants
remplaçants
75,260 corpus weight
- reproductio…
reproductions
75,259 corpus weight
- rescousse
rescousse
75,258 corpus weight
- rest
rest
75,257 corpus weight
- reverra
reverra
75,256 corpus weight
- revêtu
revêtu
75,255 corpus weight
What this shows « rest » 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 | rest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rest »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around rest (IPA \ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,744 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe rêtre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for rest, with forms such as "erst", "resst", and "restt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RT", "ris", "rex", and more, 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is rest, spelled R-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe rêtre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erst
- resst
- restt
- rets
- rrest
- rset
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rest - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).