restaurant

/\ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for restaurant
PropertyValue
Headwordrestaurant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#2,054
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of restaurant in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Aliment ou nourriture qui revigore, d’où repas.
  2. 2
    Établissement commercial où l’on vend des repas.
  3. 3
    Service d’une collectivité servant des repas à leurs adhérents.
  4. 4
    Pain de quatre-cents grammes dans certaines régions du sud de la France.

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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for restaurant

Misspelling Variants of "restaurant"

erstaurant10resaturant10resstaurant11restaruant10restauarnt10restaurannt11restaurantt11restauratn10
Misspelling Variants of "restaurant"

Frequency rank: #2,054 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "restaurant"?
"restaurant" is spelled R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\.
What does "restaurant" mean?
As a noun, "restaurant" means: Aliment ou nourriture qui revigore, d’où repas.
What words are commonly confused with "restaurant"?
"restaurant" is commonly confused with "restaurants". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "restaurant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "restaurant" is \ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "restaurant" come from?
"restaurant" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.