restaurant
res·tau·rant/ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/noun
restaurant is spelled R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T, 3 syllables: res·tau·rant. The wrong spelling people search most is resturant: about 2,890 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Restaurant is a noun meaning “An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as…”. The plural of restaurant is restaurants.
How many letters and syllables are in restaurant?
| Letters | 10: R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: res·tau·rant |
| In writing | 48 times per million words; the 2,113th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 9; the most searched, resturant, about 2,890 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell restaurant?
Restaurant is spelled R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T. 9 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for restaurant in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is restaurant?
Restaurant appears 48 times per million words in written English, the 2,113th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce restaurant?
- UK /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/
- UK /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒ̃/
- UK /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹənt/
Restaurant has 3 syllables, split res·tau·rant in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-a_restaurant.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of restaurant
- restaurants plural
- resto
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does restaurant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An eating establishment in which diners are served food, usually by waiters at their tables but sometimes (as in a fast food restaurant) at a counter.
That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate restaurant?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of restaurant: Rest., rest't, rest., restr..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Restaurant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an eating establishment in which diners are served food:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | restaurant |
| German | Restaurant, Gaststätte |
| Portuguese | restaurante |
| Spanish | restaurante, restorán |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does restaurant come from?
Borrowed from French restaurant, present participle of the verb restaurer, corresponding to Latin restaurans, restaurantis, present participle of restauro (“to restore”), from the name of the 'restorative' soup served in the first establishments.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).