restait
\ʁɛs.tɛ\
The verdict
“restait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,372. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,372
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe rester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-restait · restait · French
restait · rank #4,372 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,372
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH responsabilit…
Nearest frequency peer: responsabilités (-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 « restait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- regardant
regardant
95,632 corpus weight
- remet
remet
95,631 corpus weight
- responsabil…
responsabilités
95,630 corpus weight
- restait
restait
95,629 corpus weight
- sacs
sacs
95,627 corpus weight
- satisfait
satisfait
95,626 corpus weight
What this shows « restait » 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 | restait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « restait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around restait (IPA \ʁɛs.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,372 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe rester.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for restait, with forms such as "erstait", "resatit", and "resstait". 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, "restau", "rêvait", "retail", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is restait, spelled R-E-S-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe rester.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how restait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par la béance aggravée d’un moral sur-traumatisé ce qui restait des vertus de l’idée nationale arabe achève de s’anéantir.
Paul acquiesça. Si tel était le souhait de son cadet, Paul le suivrait sans hésiter. Il n’avait plus rien à perdre, à l’exception d’un bordel laissé à la garde d’une vieille putain. Son frère était tout ce qui lui restait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erstait
- resatit
- resstait
- restaitt
- restati
- restiat
- resttait
- retsait
- rrestait
- rsetait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of restait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).