gaillardia
/ɡeɪˈlɑː(ɹ)dɪə/noun
gaillardia is a noun meaning “Any of several New World flowering plants of the genus Gaillardia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-A-I-L-L-A-R-D-I-A, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gaillardia is gaillardias.
What does gaillardia mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several New World flowering plants of the genus Gaillardia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce gaillardia?
- /ɡeɪˈlɑː(ɹ)dɪə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gaillardia
- gaillardias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gaillardia?
Gaillardia appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Gaillardia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense plant of Gaillardia:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | gaillarde |
| Spanish | gaillardia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gaillardia come from?
From the genus name. Named after Maître Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate and an enthusiastic botanist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).