résumée

Name: résumée, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ʁe.zy.me\

/\ʁe.zy.me\/ verb

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“résumée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,340. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,340
frequency rank, French: 5,742
“R” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de résumer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-resumee · résumée · French

résumée · rank #28,340 · 10 variants · 10 confusables

FREQ-MID #28,340
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,742
PHOTO-FINISH révéla

Nearest frequency peer: révéla (+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.

réclamée

71,664
réformiste

71,663
résumée

71,661
révéla

71,660
salafiste

71,659
Sambre

71,658

What this shows « résumée » 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).

résumée vs résumer

71% similar

résumée vs résumés

86% similar

résumée vs résument

63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for résumée
Property	Value
Headword	résumée
Language	French
Part of speech	Verb
IPA	\ʁe.zy.me\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#28,340
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	10
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « résumée »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).résuméese place ici:

#28,340

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « révéla » (#28,341), « réformiste » (#28,338), « salafiste » (#28,342). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « résumée » est au #28,340. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around résumée (IPA \ʁe.zy.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,340 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de résumer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for résumée, with forms such as "resumee", "rrésumée", and "rséumée". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "résumer", "résumés", "résument", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is résumée, spelled R-É-S-U-M-É-E.

Definition

1
Participe passé féminin singulier de résumer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how résumée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Pour les contraintes : il faut distinguer les vraies et les fausses contraintes, chercher à se désempiéger de routines médiocres, retrouver le goût de l’érudition, de l’affouillement, de la trouvaille, du plaisir de la quête que ne peut donner l’histoire "résumée" ou l’histoire "idéologique".

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

resumee
rrésumée
rséumée
résmuée
réssumée
résumeé
résummée
résuéme
réusmée
érsumée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of résumée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "résumée"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "résumée"?

"résumée" is spelled R-É-S-U-M-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁe.zy.me\.

What does "résumée" mean?

As a verb, "résumée" means: Participe passé féminin singulier de résumer.

What words are commonly confused with "résumée"?

"résumée" is commonly confused with "résumer", "résumés", "résument". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "résumée"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "résumée" is \ʁe.zy.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "résumée" come from?

"résumée" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "résumée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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