restante
\ʁɛs.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“restante” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,117. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,117
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de restant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-restante · restante · French
restante · rank #29,117 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,117
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ressentis
Nearest frequency peer: ressentis (-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 « restante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ressemblera
ressemblera
70,887 corpus weight
- ressentais
ressentais
70,886 corpus weight
- ressentis
ressentis
70,885 corpus weight
- restante
restante
70,884 corpus weight
- retransmiss…
retransmission
70,883 corpus weight
- revend
revend
70,882 corpus weight
What this shows « restante » 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 | restante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « restante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around restante (IPA \ʁɛs.tɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,117 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de restant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for restante, with forms such as "erstante", "resatnte", and "resstante". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "restent", "restants", "restauré", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is restante, spelled R-E-S-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de restant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how restante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On constate, en outre, que la chauve-souris peut voler malgré l’ablation d’une notable étendue de la membrane de ses ailes, pourvu que la partie restante corresponde aux espaces interdigitaux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erstante
- resatnte
- resstante
- restanet
- restannte
- restantte
- restatne
- restnate
- resttante
- retsante
- rrestante
- rsetante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of restante - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "restante", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).