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Restaurants Pronunciation
Restaurants is pronounced RES-trahnts, IPA /ˈrɛˌstrɑnts/.
RES-trahnts
US /ˈrɛˌstrɑnts/ · UK /ˈrɛstrɒnts/
Syllables: RES · trahnts (2 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun (plural): More than one place that cooks and serves meals, often meaning the eating-out trade as a whole.
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Restaurants in a Sentence
- Half the restaurants on that street closed within a year.
- Restaurants here stop serving food at nine.
- We tried three restaurants before one had a free table.
Common Mispronunciations of Restaurants
Not RES-trahn-tsuhz
No extra beat arrives with the plural. The s simply joins the t to make a tight nts cluster at the close.
Not RES-trahns
Sound the t inside that cluster. Dropped, it leaves a word that no longer carries its own singular inside it.
Tip: Two beats in quick speech, RES-trahnts, or three if you give the middle vowel its own place, RES-tuh-rahnts.
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