reste

/\ʁɛst\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#205

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

reste is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui demeure d’un tout, d’une plus grande quantité ; ce qui subsiste d’une chose passée, tant au sens physique qu’au sens moral. Pronounced \ʁɛst\. It ranks #205 in French word frequency. Often confused with rte and RSE.

Key facts for reste
PropertyValue
Headwordreste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɛst\
Letters5
Frequency rank#205
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of reste in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for reste is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛst\. Corpus data places it at rank #205 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for reste, with forms such as "erste", "resste", and "restte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rte", "RSE", "rêve", 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 reste, spelled R-E-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui demeure d’un tout, d’une plus grande quantité ; ce qui subsiste d’une chose passée, tant au sens physique qu’au sens moral.
  2. 2
    Autre partie d'un tout.
  3. 3
    Ce qui ne fut pas mangé dans un repas.
  4. 4
    Le solde d'une transaction monétaire.
  5. 5
    Ce qui reste d’une personne après sa mort; son cadavre, ses ossements, ses cendres.
  6. 6
    Ce qui est encore à faire, à dire après avoir commencé.
  7. 7
    Petite quantité ou légère trace qui existe encore ou qui persiste.
  8. 8
    Nombre ou grandeur constituant l’un des résultats d’une division et qui est la partie non divisée du dividende ayant une valeur absolue inférieure à celle du diviseur.
  9. 9
    Ce que quelqu’un a abandonné ou refusé.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erste,resste,restte,retse,rreste,rsete

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reste

Misspelling Variants of "reste"

erste5resste6restte6retse5rreste6rsete5
Misspelling Variants of "reste"

Frequency rank: #205 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reste"?
"reste" is spelled R-E-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛst\.
What does "reste" mean?
As a noun, "reste" means: Ce qui demeure d’un tout, d’une plus grande quantité ; ce qui subsiste d’une chose passée, tant au sens physique qu’au sens moral.
What words are commonly confused with "reste"?
"reste" is commonly confused with "rte", "RSE", "rêve". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "reste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reste" is \ʁɛst\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "reste" come from?
"reste" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.