résumer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,777
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
résumer is aFrenchverb. It means: Resserrer et rendre en peu de paroles ce qu’il y a de plus important dans une discussion, dans un discours, dans un argument. Pronounced \ʁe.zy.me\. It ranks #8,777 in French word frequency. Often confused with résumés and rester.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | résumer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁe.zy.me\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for résumer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁe.zy.me\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,777 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for résumer, with forms such as "resumer", "rrésumer", and "rséumer". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "résumés", "rester", "résumé", 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 résumer, spelled R-É-S-U-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Resserrer et rendre en peu de paroles ce qu’il y a de plus important dans une discussion, dans un discours, dans un argument.
- 2Rendre en peu de choses un ensemble plus vaste ou plus complexe.
- 3Reprendre en peu de mots ce qu’on a dit.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: resumer,rrésumer,rséumer,résmuer,réssumer,résuemr,résumerr,résummer,résumre,réusmer,érsumer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for résumer
Misspelling Variants of "résumer"
Frequency rank: #8,777 in French
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