gabardine
\ɡa.baʁ.din\
The verdict
“gabardine” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tissu présentant une côte en diagonale sur l’endroit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gabardine · gabardine · French
gabardine · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" 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 | gabardine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡa.baʁ.din\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
gabardine is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡa.baʁ.din\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for gabardine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 gabardine, spelled G-A-B-A-R-D-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Tissu présentant une côte en diagonale sur l’endroit.
- 2Manteau imperméable fabriqué en gabardine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gabardine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Camille était vêtu de toile brune comme les chasseurs de France […]. Le capitaine Philps, lui, était en fine gabardine beige.
Mais ce bonhomme dont le ventre écarte les pans flottants d’une vieille gabardine et qui abrite son crâne luisant sous un journal à demi déployé, est-ce vraiment Fred ?
This word in other languages
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.