restaurant

\ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\

/\ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“restaurant” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,054. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,054
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aliment ou nourriture qui revigore, d’où repas.

Corpus desk

Index FR-restaurant · restaurant · French

restaurant · rank #2,054 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,054
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH retourner

Nearest frequency peer: retourner (+1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « restaurant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « restaurant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

restaurant vs restaurants
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « restaurant »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).restaurantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « retourner » (#2,055), « rues » (#2,056), « profit » (#2,051). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « restaurant » est au #2,054. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around restaurant (IPA \ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,054 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for restaurant, with forms such as "erstaurant", "resaturant", and "resstaurant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is restaurant, spelled R-E-S-T-A-U-R-A-N-T.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how restaurant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je me contenterai de remarquer très sérieusement, que le substantif féminin Frigousse, salade de viandes froides, est oublié dans le Dictionnaire de l’Académie ; ce qui n’est guère excusable, une copieuse frigousse étant le meilleur restaurant qu’on puisse offrir à des chasseurs en halte, ou à des pêcheurs fatigués.
  2. — Chacune de vos conquêtes est mon restaurant.

Synonyms

bouillonrestauresto

This word in other languages

restaurant(English)restaurante(Español)Restaurant(Deutsch)restaurante(Português)

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 - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

erstaurant2resaturant2resstaurant1restaruant2restauarnt2restaurannt1restaurantt1restauratn2
Edit distance from "restaurant"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "restaurant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

démocratie#2,038difficulté#2,072mouvements#2,090rencontres#2,014

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

printemps15 variantsappartement15 variantsprécédent15 variantsdéfinition15 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list