restaurant
[ʁɛs.to.ʁɑ̃]
The verdict
“restaurant” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #2,464 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,464
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - das Wirtshaus, die Gaststätte, das Restaurant
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | restaurant |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁɛs.to.ʁɑ̃] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “restaurant” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for restaurant is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁɛs.to.ʁɑ̃]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,464 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "das Wirtshaus, die Gaststätte, das Restaurant".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for restaurant, with forms such as "erstaurant", "resaturant", and "resstaurant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Restaurants", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is restaurant, spelled R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1das Wirtshaus, die Gaststätte, das Restaurant
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erstaurant,resaturant,resstaurant,restaruant,restauarnt,restaurannt,restaurantt,restauratn,restaurnat,restaurrant,resttaurant,restuarant,retsaurant,rrestaurant,rsetaurant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of restaurant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “restaurant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʁɛs.to.ʁɑ̃] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Restaurants” - see the side-by-side comparison. restaurant vs Restaurants
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.