gaillarde

/\ɡa.jaʁd\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#42,357

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

gaillarde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ancienne danse au mouvement animé. Pronounced \ɡa.jaʁd\. Often confused with gaillards and gaillard.

Key facts for gaillarde
PropertyValue
Headwordgaillarde
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡa.jaʁd\
Letters9
Frequency rank#42,357
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gaillarde in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for gaillarde is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡa.jaʁd\. Corpus data places it at rank #42,357 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for gaillarde, with forms such as "agillarde", "gailalrde", and "gailarde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "gaillards", "gaillard", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 gaillarde, spelled G-A-I-L-L-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
    Ancienne danse au mouvement animé.
  2. 2
    Air de musique qui accompagnait cette danse.
  3. 3
    Taille d’une fonte de caractère d’imprimerie, d’un corps de huit points ou à peu près, intermédiaire entre le petit-texte et le petit-romain.
  4. 4
    Substantivement, par ellipse, pour une mouche gaillarde, un grain de beauté factice placé sur le nez.
  5. 5
    Nom de diverses plantes de la famille des astéracées.
  6. 6
    Femme de bonne composition.
  7. 7
    Femme de solide stature.
  8. 8
    Forte femme qui a des allures jugées trop libres.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: agillarde,gailalrde,gailarde,gailladre,gaillardde,gaillared,gaillarrde,gaillrade,galilarde,ggaillarde,giallarde

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gaillarde

Misspelling Variants of "gaillarde"

agillarde9gailalrde9gailarde8gailladre9gaillardde10gaillared9gaillarrde10gaillrade9
Misspelling Variants of "gaillarde"

Frequency rank: #42,357 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gaillarde"?
"gaillarde" is spelled G-A-I-L-L-A-R-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡa.jaʁd\.
What does "gaillarde" mean?
As a noun, "gaillarde" means: Ancienne danse au mouvement animé.
What words are commonly confused with "gaillarde"?
"gaillarde" is commonly confused with "gaillards", "gaillard". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gaillarde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gaillarde" is \ɡa.jaʁd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gaillarde" come from?
"gaillarde" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.