Resillier

Resillier is not a recognized word in standard English or French dictionaries. In practice, it often appears as a misspelling or nonce term in informal writing, and does not have a fixed meaning across sources.

Most commonly, resillier is mistaken for resilient, the English adjective meaning able to recover quickly, or for the French verb résilier, meaning to terminate a contract, as well as for the noun résiliation, meaning termination. The lack of a clear definition has led editors and translators to correct the term to one of its established counterparts.

In terms of usage, if you intend the English sense of bouncing back from difficulty, use resilient or resilience. If you intend the French sense of ending an agreement, use résilier in the appropriate conjugation (je résilie, nous résilions) or the noun résiliation. For example: Incorrect: The company plans to resillier its lease. Correct (French): L'entreprise veut résilier son bail. Correct (English): The company demonstrated resilience during the outage.

Because resillier is not standard, most style guides treat it as a spelling error or a mistaken form. Writers should replace it with the correct word appropriate to the desired meaning.

See also: resilience, resilient, résilier, résiliation.