gardaient
\ɡaʁ.dɛ\
The verdict
“gardaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,311
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de garder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gardaient · gardaient · French
gardaient · rank #38,311 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,311
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garante
Nearest frequency peer: garante (-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 « gardaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- galet
galet
61,692 corpus weight
- garante
garante
61,691 corpus weight
- gardaient
gardaient
61,690 corpus weight
- Garneau
Garneau
61,689 corpus weight
- Genk
Genk
61,688 corpus weight
- Gentilly
Gentilly
61,687 corpus weight
What this shows « gardaient » 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 | gardaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gardaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around gardaient (IPA \ɡaʁ.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,311 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de garder.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for gardaient, with forms such as "agrdaient", "gadraient", and "garadient". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "gardien", "gardent", "gardant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is gardaient, spelled G-A-R-D-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de garder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gardaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les cerises printanières gardaient leur fermeté et leur bel éclat ponceau, les salades ne se tavelaient pas, les gigots pendus aux crochets d’acier demeuraient élastiques, saignants, consommables.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrdaient
- gadraient
- garadient
- gardaeint
- gardaiennt
- gardaientt
- gardaietn
- gardainet
- garddaient
- gardiaent
- garrdaient
- ggardaient
- gradaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gardaient - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gardaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).