restaurant
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,054
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
restaurant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Aliment ou nourriture qui revigore, d’où repas. Pronounced \ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\. It ranks #2,054 in French word frequency. Often confused with restaurants.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | restaurant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for restaurant is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,054 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for restaurant, with forms such as "erstaurant", "resaturant", and "resstaurant". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "restaurants", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is restaurant, spelled R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aliment ou nourriture qui revigore, d’où repas.
- 2Établissement commercial où l’on vend des repas.
- 3Service d’une collectivité servant des repas à leurs adhérents.
- 4Pain de quatre-cents grammes dans certaines régions du sud de la France.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erstaurant,resaturant,resstaurant,restaruant,restauarnt,restaurannt,restaurantt,restauratn,restaurnat,restaurrant,resttaurant,restuarant,retsaurant,rrestaurant,rsetaurant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for restaurant
Misspelling Variants of "restaurant"
Frequency rank: #2,054 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: