restreint
\ʁɛs.tʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“restreint” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,769. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,769
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est limité ou étroit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-restreint · restreint · French
restreint · rank #8,769 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,769
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH représentait
Nearest frequency peer: représentait (-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 « restreint »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- reconstruire
reconstruire
91,235 corpus weight
- regroupement
regroupement
91,234 corpus weight
- représentait
représentait
91,233 corpus weight
- restreint
restreint
91,232 corpus weight
- revivre
revivre
91,231 corpus weight
- rhétorique
rhétorique
91,230 corpus weight
What this shows « restreint » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | restreint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɛs.tʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « restreint »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around restreint (IPA \ʁɛs.tʁɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,769 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for restreint, with forms such as "erstreint", "resrteint", and "resstreint". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "restreinte", "restreints", "restreintes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is restreint, spelled R-E-S-T-R-E-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est limité ou étroit.
- 2Sobre, sans ostentation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how restreint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On cite Picea Omorica, largement répandu en Europe avant les glaciations et maintenant localisé aux Balkans en stations restreintes.
Les rouges étaient aux cent coups. Ils s'étaient réunis en comité restreint dans la cuisine du cafetier. Autour de la toile cirée, le bureau de la Libre-Pensée cogitait ferme.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erstreint
- resrteint
- resstreint
- resterint
- restreinnt
- restreintt
- restreitn
- restrenit
- restrient
- restrreint
- resttreint
- retsreint
- rrestreint
- rsetreint
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of restreint - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "restreint", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).