garda
\ɡaʁ.da\
The verdict
“garda” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,570. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,570
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de garder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garda · garda · French
garda · rank #28,570 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,570
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gangrène
Nearest frequency peer: gangrène (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « garda »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- furet
furet
71,434 corpus weight
- fâcheux
fâcheux
71,433 corpus weight
- gangrène
gangrène
71,432 corpus weight
- garda
garda
71,431 corpus weight
- gastrique
gastrique
71,430 corpus weight
- Gertrude
Gertrude
71,428 corpus weight
What this shows « garda » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.da\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « garda »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around garda (IPA \ɡaʁ.da\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,570 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de garder.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for garda, with forms such as "agrda", "gadra", and "garad". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gra", "gars", "gare", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is garda, spelled G-A-R-D-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de garder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how garda appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le feuillage de quelques arbustes froissés retentit dans le silence, comme le murmure d’une onde agitée ; mais quoiqu’ils prêtassent l’oreille pour saisir quelques nouveaux sons, la terre resta silencieuse et garda le secret des pas de l’inconnue, si toutefois elle avait marché.
Hortense, par une dissimulation dont se serait effrayée Lisbeth Fischer, si elle s’en était aperçue, se garda bien d’exprimer toute son admiration, quoiqu’elle éprouvât ce saisissement que ressentent les gens dont l’âme est ouverte au beau, quand ils voient un chef-d’œuvre sans défaut, complet, inattendu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrda
- gadra
- garad
- gardda
- garrda
- ggarda
- grada
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of garda - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).