rester
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rester |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Continuer d’être à un endroit ou dans un état.
- 2Continuer à exister ; perdurer ; persister.
- 3Subsister par rapport à quelque chose qui a disparu.
- 4Continuer à être, en parlant de sentiments, de comportements.
- 5(Il reste (à quelqu’un) quelque chose) Il y a encore (quelque chose), les autres n’existant plus.
- 6(Il reste (à quelqu’un) à faire quelque chose) Il faut encore (faire quelque chose).
- 7(Il reste que, ou Reste que) Il est quand même vrai que.
- 8Habiter.
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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"
Frequency rank: #660 in French
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Nearby French words
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