reste
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Ce 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.
- 2Autre partie d'un tout.
- 3Ce qui ne fut pas mangé dans un repas.
- 4Le solde d'une transaction monétaire.
- 5Ce qui reste d’une personne après sa mort; son cadavre, ses ossements, ses cendres.
- 6Ce qui est encore à faire, à dire après avoir commencé.
- 7Petite quantité ou légère trace qui existe encore ou qui persiste.
- 8Nombre 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.
- 9Ce que quelqu’un a abandonné ou refusé.
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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"
Frequency rank: #205 in French
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