restos
\ʁɛs.tɔ\
The verdict
“restos” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #15,232 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #15,232
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de resto.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | restos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.tɔ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “restos” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for restos is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁɛs.tɔ\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,232 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de resto.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for restos, with forms such as "erstos", "resots", and "resstos". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Rostov", "rest", "reste", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is restos, spelled R-E-S-T-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de resto.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erstos,resots,resstos,restoss,restso,resttos,retsos,rrestos,rsetos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of restos - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Using “restos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-S-T-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁɛs.tɔ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Rostov” - see the side-by-side comparison. restos vs Rostov
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.