gardant
\ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“gardant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,667. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,667
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de garder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gardant · gardant · French
gardant · rank #9,667 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,667
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gabon
Nearest frequency peer: Gabon (-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 « gardant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fusée
fusée
90,336 corpus weight
- Gabon
Gabon
90,335 corpus weight
- gardant
gardant
90,334 corpus weight
- greffe
greffe
90,333 corpus weight
- Hollandais
Hollandais
90,332 corpus weight
- homosexuel
homosexuel
90,331 corpus weight
What this shows « gardant » 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 | gardant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gardant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around gardant (IPA \ɡaʁ.dɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,667 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de garder.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for gardant, with forms such as "agrdant", "gadrant", and "garadnt". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "grant", "gérant", "garden", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gardant, spelled G-A-R-D-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de garder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gardant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’employé, toujours perplexe, après n’avoir pu décider dans son esprit à qui il remettrait la plume en premier lieu, allait, pour ne froisser personne, la retremper dans l’encrier, afin qu’il n’y ait point de préférence à manifester, lorsqu’il s’arrêta net, gardant le porte-plume entre ses doigts.
Combien de fois le passant attardé n’a-t-il pas surpris, mais en se gardant bien de faire mine de les voir, une douzaine ou deux de petits hommes rondiant au clair de lune, par quelque belle nuit d’été, sur les tas de fumier dressés aux abords des fermes !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrdant
- gadrant
- garadnt
- gardannt
- gardantt
- gardatn
- garddant
- gardnat
- garrdant
- ggardant
- gradant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gardant - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gardant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).