repostvsrésoutTell them apart

Quick tell: repost is a adjective, résout is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“repost” is an adjective and “résout” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#39,975
“repost” frequency rank
#14,790
“résout” frequency rank
54765
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature repost résout
Definition Caché. Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe résoudre.

Letter map: repost vs résout

Shared letters muted; letters that set repost and résout apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. repost (CVCVCC) and résout (CVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

6 ch
repost
6 ch
résout

Part-of-speech tell for repost / résout

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: repost is anadjective and résoutaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54765, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

repost is recorded at frequency rank #39,975, classified as anadj. résout is at rank #14,790, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁe.zu\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 54765, this pair ranks #131,833 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of repost vs résout

Shared letters: orst. Private to "repost": ep. Private to "résout": ué.

"repost" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "résout" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • repost ← erpost · reopst · reposst · repostt · repots · reppost · repsot · rpeost

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "repost" and "résout" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "repost" is an adjective and "résout" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "repost" or "résout" show up more?
"résout" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,790 in our French list, against #39,975 for "repost". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "repost" and "résout". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "repost" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "résout" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #131,833 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "repost" and "résout" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reposée vs repost". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #131,833 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list