garçon de bureau
\ɡaʁ.sɔ̃ də by.ʁo\
The verdict
“garçon de bureau” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Employé subalterne dans une société ou dans une administration.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garçon de bureau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.sɔ̃ də by.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garçon de bureau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for garçon de bureau is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.sɔ̃ də by.ʁo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Employé subalterne dans une société ou dans une administration.".
No misspelling variants are generated for garçon de bureau 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 garçon de bureau, spelled G-A-R-Ç-O-N- -D-E- -B-U-R-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Employé subalterne dans une société ou dans une administration.
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.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-R-Ç-O-N- -D-E- -B-U-R-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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