chien de garde

/\ʃjɛ̃ də ɡaʁd\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

chien de garde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chien dressé pour garder un lieu, dont le rôle est de veiller sur une maison, une propriété. Pronounced \ʃjɛ̃ də ɡaʁd\.

Key facts for chien de garde
PropertyValue
Headwordchien de garde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃjɛ̃ də ɡaʁd\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

chien de garde is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for chien de garde is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃjɛ̃ də ɡaʁd\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for chien de garde in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is chien de garde, spelled C-H-I-E-N- -D-E- -G-A-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chien dressé pour garder un lieu, dont le rôle est de veiller sur une maison, une propriété.
  2. 2
    Personne ou entité qui veille sur quelque chose.
  3. 3
    Personnage médiatique (journaliste, éditorialiste…) mettant sa notoriété au service de l'ordre établi.
  4. 4
    Horloge de surveillance, registre d’horloge qui surveille l’état d’un signal ou d’une unité fonctionnelle afin de déceler les périodes d’inactivité ou les temps de réponse qui dépassent une durée spécifiée. Termes et définition normalisés par l’ISO/CÉI 2382-14:1997.

This word in other languages

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "chien de garde"?
"chien de garde" is spelled C-H-I-E-N- -D-E- -G-A-R-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃjɛ̃ də ɡaʁd\.
What does "chien de garde" mean?
As a noun, "chien de garde" means: Chien dressé pour garder un lieu, dont le rôle est de veiller sur une maison, une propriété.
How do you pronounce "chien de garde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "chien de garde" is \ʃjɛ̃ də ɡaʁd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "chien de garde" come from?
"chien de garde" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our French index:

Explore PlainSpell

Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.