restent
\ʁɛst\
The verdict
“restent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,973. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,973
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-restent · restent · French
restent · rank #1,973 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,973
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH prêts
Nearest frequency peer: prêts (-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 « restent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- produire
produire
98,032 corpus weight
- proximité
proximité
98,031 corpus weight
- prêts
prêts
98,029 corpus weight
- restent
restent
98,028 corpus weight
- station
station
98,026 corpus weight
- stratégie
stratégie
98,025 corpus weight
What this shows « restent » 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 | restent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « restent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around restent (IPA \ʁɛst\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,973 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for restent, with forms such as "erstent", "resetnt", and "resstent". 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, "rester", "retenu", "restés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is restent, spelled R-E-S-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rester.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de rester.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how restent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’anime, qui n’est qu'une variété du halecret, se confond dans l’origine, c’est-à-dire à l’époque de Louis XII, avec la brigandine, dont elle a presque la souplesse, mais dont les lames plus longues restent toujours apparentes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erstent
- resetnt
- resstent
- restennt
- restentt
- restetn
- restnet
- resttent
- retsent
- rrestent
- rsetent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of restent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "restent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).