restaurant
/ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/
"restaurant" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“restaurant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,125. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,125
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index EN-restaurant · restaurant · English
restaurant · rank #2,125 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,125
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 21,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Scotland
Nearest frequency peer: Scotland (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “restaurant”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- performed
performed
97,879 corpus weight
- planet
planet
97,878 corpus weight
- restaurant
restaurant
97,876 corpus weight
- Scotland
Scotland
97,875 corpus weight
- selected
selected
97,874 corpus weight
- shared
shared
97,873 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “restaurant” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | restaurant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “restaurant” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around restaurant (IPA /ˈɹɛst(ə)ɹɒnt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,125 among 21,470 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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.".
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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: 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. The correct English form is restaurant, spelled R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1An 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how restaurant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.
By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
Etymology
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.
Synonyms
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 - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "restaurant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).
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.