restreignant
\ʁɛs.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\
The verdict
“restreignant” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,840. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,840
- frequency rank, French
- 507,453
- “R” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui restreint.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | restreignant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #45,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “restreignant” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around restreignant (IPA \ʁɛs.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,840 among 507,453 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui restreint.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for restreignant, with forms such as "erstreignant", "resrteignant", and "resstreignant". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is restreignant, spelled R-E-S-T-R-E-I-G-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui restreint.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erstreignant
- resrteignant
- resstreignant
- resterignant
- restreginant
- restreigannt
- restreiggnant
- restreignannt
- restreignantt
- restreignatn
- restreignnant
- restreignnat
- restreingant
- restriegnant
- restrreignant
- resttreignant
- retsreignant
- rrestreignant
- rsetreignant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of restreignant - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “restreignant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-E-S-T-R-E-I-G-N-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁɛs.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.