# diner

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈdaɪnə(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #15,384

## Definitions
1. Someone who dines.
2. Someone who gives a dinner.
3. A car in a railroad train that serves meals.
4. A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.

## Etymology
From dine + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **DNR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dnr)
- **done** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-done)
- **dive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dive)
- **dire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dire)
- **ding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-ding)
- **dino** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dino)
- **dyer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dyer)
- **dune** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dune)
- **dint** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dint)
- **DINK** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dink)
- **doer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-doer)
- **donor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-donor)
- **Dover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dover)
- **dryer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dryer)
- **diver** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-diver)
- **dives** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dives)
- **drier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-drier)
- **Dwyer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dwyer)
- **dived** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-dived)
- **duper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/diner-vs-duper)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ddiner`, `dienr`, `dinerr`, `dinre`, `dnier`, `idner`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/diner