gardait
\ɡaʁ.dɛ\
The verdict
“gardait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,372. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,372
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de garder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gardait · gardait · French
gardait · rank #16,372 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,372
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Fukushima
Nearest frequency peer: Fukushima (-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 « gardait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flow
flow
83,633 corpus weight
- fonctionnant
fonctionnant
83,632 corpus weight
- fortificati…
fortifications
83,631 corpus weight
- Fukushima
Fukushima
83,630 corpus weight
- gardait
gardait
83,629 corpus weight
- gardée
gardée
83,628 corpus weight
What this shows « gardait » 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 | gardait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gardait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around gardait (IPA \ɡaʁ.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,372 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de garder.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for gardait, with forms such as "agrdait", "gadrait", and "garadit". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "gérait", "gardent", "gardant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is gardait, spelled G-A-R-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de garder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gardait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce dernier combat, qu’il racontait à sa manière et dont sa mémoire troublée ne gardait que le résultat funeste, avait dû présenter de terribles dangers, car il était sans armes, tandis que ses adversaires étaient armés tous les deux, et, avant de broyer l’une contre l’autre, avec la vigueur que donne la manie, les têtes de maître Gruff et de sa femme, il…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrdait
- gadrait
- garadit
- gardaitt
- gardati
- garddait
- gardiat
- garrdait
- ggardait
- gradait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gardait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).