rester

/\ʁɛs.te\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#660

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

rester is aFrenchverb. It means: Continuer d’être à un endroit ou dans un état. Pronounced \ʁɛs.te\. It ranks #660 in French word frequency. Often confused with rêver and resto.

Key facts for rester
PropertyValue
Headwordrester
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁɛs.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#660
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rester is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛs.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #660 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for rester, with forms such as "erster", "resetr", and "resster". 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, "rêver", "resto", "restés", 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 rester, spelled R-E-S-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Continuer d’être à un endroit ou dans un état.
  2. 2
    Continuer à exister ; perdurer ; persister.
  3. 3
    Subsister par rapport à quelque chose qui a disparu.
  4. 4
    Continuer à être, en parlant de sentiments, de comportements.
  5. 5
    (Il reste (à quelqu’un) quelque chose) Il y a encore (quelque chose), les autres n’existant plus.
  6. 6
    (Il reste (à quelqu’un) à faire quelque chose) Il faut encore (faire quelque chose).
  7. 7
    (Il reste que, ou Reste que) Il est quand même vrai que.
  8. 8
    Habiter.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: erster,resetr,resster,resterr,restre,restter,retser,rrester,rseter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rester

Misspelling Variants of "rester"

erster6resetr6resster7resterr7restre6restter7retser6rrester7
Misspelling Variants of "rester"

Frequency rank: #660 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rester"?
"rester" is spelled R-E-S-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛs.te\.
What does "rester" mean?
As a verb, "rester" means: Continuer d’être à un endroit ou dans un état.
What words are commonly confused with "rester"?
"rester" is commonly confused with "rêver", "resto", "restés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rester"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rester" is \ʁɛs.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rester" come from?
"rester" 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.