Dieu m’en garde
\djø m‿ɑ̃ ɡaʁd\
The verdict
“Dieu m’en garde” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Locution employée pour marquer un dégoût, un rejet, un refus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dieu-m-en-garde · Dieu m’en garde · French
Dieu m’en garde · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dieu m’en garde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \djø m‿ɑ̃ ɡaʁd\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dieu m’en garde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dieu m’en garde is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed \djø m‿ɑ̃ ɡaʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Locution employée pour marquer un dégoût, un rejet, un refus.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dieu m’en garde in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Dieu m’en garde, spelled D-I-E-U- -M-’-E-N- -G-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Locution employée pour marquer un dégoût, un rejet, un refus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dieu m’en garde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vous montrerais tel coin du parc, tel escalier de la terrasse, tel endroit des champs, du village, de la falaise, où l’âme des choses insensibles a si bien gardé le souvenir de Madeleine et le mien, que si je l’y cherchais encore, et Dieu m’en garde, je l’y retrouverais aussi reconnaissable qu’au lendemain de notre départ.
— … Je n’ai rien fait à Elize, Dieu m’en garde, je vous le jure !
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.