restreignant

\ʁɛs.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\

/\ʁɛs.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\/ adj

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
5,742
“R” headwords
19
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui restreint.

Corpus desk

Index FR-restreignant · restreignant · French

restreignant · rank #45,840 · 19 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #45,840
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 19 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH resserrée

Nearest frequency peer: resserrée (-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 « restreignant »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « restreignant » 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
Key facts for restreignant
PropertyValue
Headwordrestreignant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ʁɛs.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#45,840
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « restreignant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).restreignantse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « resserrée » (#45,839), « retourneront » (#45,841), « ressentons » (#45,838). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « restreignant » est au #45,840. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 19 spelling variants around restreignant (IPA \ʁɛs.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,840 among 5,742 “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

  1. 1
    Qui 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.

erstreignant2resrteignant2resstreignant1resterignant2restreginant2restreigannt2restreiggnant1restreignannt1
Edit distance from "restreignant"

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 "restreignant"?
"restreignant" is spelled R-E-S-T-R-E-I-G-N-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɛs.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\.
What does "restreignant" mean?
As an adjective, "restreignant" means: Qui restreint.
What are common misspellings of "restreignant"?
Common misspellings include "erstreignant", "resrteignant", "resstreignant", "resterignant", "restreginant". The correct spelling is "restreignant".
How do you pronounce "restreignant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "restreignant" is \ʁɛs.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "restreignant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list