restéesvsReutersConfusable pair

Quick tell: restées is a adjective, Reuters is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“restées” is an adjective and “Reuters” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,550
“restées” frequency rank
#15,022
“Reuters” frequency rank
29572
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature restées Reuters
Definition Féminin pluriel de resté. Agence de presse internationale basée à Londres.

Letter map: restées vs Reuters

Shared letters muted; letters that set restées and Reuters apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. restées (CVCCVVC) and Reuters (CVVCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
restées
7 ch
Reuters

Role in the sentence - restées and Reuters

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: restées is anadjective and Reutersaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29572, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

restées is recorded at frequency rank #14,550, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁɛs.te\. Reuters is at rank #15,022, tagged as aname.

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 29572, this pair ranks #315,821 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of restées vs Reuters

Shared letters: erst. Private to "restées": é. Private to "Reuters": u.

"restées" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC  ·  "Reuters" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Reuters ← eruters · retuers · reuetrs · reuterrs · reuterss · reutesr · reutres · reutters

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "restées" for "Reuters" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "restées" is an adjective and "Reuters" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "restées" or "Reuters" show up more?
"restées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,550 in our French list, against #15,022 for "Reuters". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "restées" and "Reuters".

  • Full dictionary entry for "restées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Reuters" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #315,821 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "restées" and "Reuters" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rasées vs restées". 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 #315,821 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