garde
[ɡaʀd]
The verdict
“garde” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,877. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,877
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jene Tätigkeit, zu bewachen oder zu behüten
Corpus desk
Index DE-garde · garde · German
garde · rank #11,877 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,877
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH fünfzehn
Nearest frequency peer: fünfzehn (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „garde“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Freiburger
Freiburger
88,127 corpus weight
- freundlicher
freundlicher
88,126 corpus weight
- fünfzehn
fünfzehn
88,125 corpus weight
- garde
garde
88,124 corpus weight
- Gasthaus
Gasthaus
88,123 corpus weight
- gekonnt
gekonnt
88,122 corpus weight
What this shows „garde“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | garde |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡaʀd] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „garde“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around garde (IPA [ɡaʀd]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,877 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "jene Tätigkeit, zu bewachen oder zu behüten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for garde, with forms such as "agrde", "gadre", and "gardde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gerd", "Gary", "gate", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is garde, spelled G-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1jene Tätigkeit, zu bewachen oder zu behüten
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrde
- gadre
- gardde
- gared
- garrde
- ggarde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of garde - 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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "garde", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).