# garden

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɡɑːd(ə)n/ · frequency rank #1,757

## Definitions
1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
2. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
3. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
4. The grounds at the front or back of a house.
5. A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.
6. The twentieth Lenormand card.
7. A cluster; a bunch.
8. Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.

## Etymology
From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin. Displaced Old English wyrttūn.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.

## Easily confused with
- **gare** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-gare)
- **green** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-green)
- **golden** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-golden)
- **Gordon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-gordon)
- **garner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-garner)
- **garnet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-garnet)
- **Garvey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-garvey)
- **garter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-garter)
- **garret** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-garret)
- **girder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-girder)
- **gardens** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-gardens)
- **Gardner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-gardner)
- **guarded** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-guarded)
- **garment** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-garment)
- **gardener** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garden-vs-gardener)
- **gard** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gard-vs-garden)
- **Galen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/galen-vs-garden)
- **garda** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/garda-vs-garden)
- **gander** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gander-vs-garden)

## Common misspellings (9)
`agrden`, `gadren`, `gardden`, `gardenn`, `gardne`, `garedn`, `garrden`, `ggarden`, `graden`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/garden