Which to use
“restée” and “restées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,073
- “restée” frequency rank
- #14,550
- “restées” frequency rank
- 19623
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | restée | restées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de resté. | Féminin pluriel de resté. |
Same sound, different letters: restée vs restées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. restée runs 6 letters (CVCCVV) against restées's 7 (CVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - restée and restées
This is the hard kind. restée and restées are pronounced identically (\ʁɛs.te\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “restée” sits inside “restées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 19623, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
restée is recorded at frequency rank #5,073, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁɛs.te\. restées is at rank #14,550, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁɛs.te\.
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 19623, this pair ranks #372,361 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of restée vs restées
Shared letters: ersté. Private to "restée": -. Private to "restées": -.
"restée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "restées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "restée" for "restées" ever safe?
Frequency check: "restée" vs "restées" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"restée" and "restées" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "restée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "restées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #372,361 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "restée" and "restées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rasées vs restées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #372,361 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.