garçon de cage
\ɡaʁ.sɔ̃ də kaʒ\
The verdict
“garçon de cage” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Préposé qui s’occupe des animaux élevés dans les cages de la ménagerie d’un cirque, notamment des fauves d’un dompteur, les nourrit et même les soigne.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garçon de cage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.sɔ̃ də kaʒ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garçon de cage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for garçon de cage is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.sɔ̃ də kaʒ\. 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: "Préposé qui s’occupe des animaux élevés dans les cages de la ménagerie d’un cirque, notamment des fauves d’un dompteur, les nourrit et même les soigne.".
No misspelling variants are generated for garçon de cage 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 cage, spelled G-A-R-Ç-O-N- -D-E- -C-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Préposé qui s’occupe des animaux élevés dans les cages de la ménagerie d’un cirque, notamment des fauves d’un dompteur, les nourrit et même les soigne.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-R-Ç-O-N- -D-E- -C-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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