garde
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#613
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
garde is aFrenchnoun. It means: Soldat effectuant une garde, chargé de la protection d’une personne, de la surveillance d’un lieu. Pronounced \ɡaʁd\. It ranks #613 in French word frequency. Often confused with gré and gars.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for garde is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁd\. Corpus data places it at rank #613 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for garde, with forms such as "agrde", "gadre", and "gardde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gré", "gars", "gare", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 garde, spelled G-A-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Soldat effectuant une garde, chargé de la protection d’une personne, de la surveillance d’un lieu.
- 2Soldat faisant partie d’un corps de garde.
- 3Se dit de toute personne chargée de garder quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 4Désignation du grade d’un membre d’un régiment de gardes de l’infanterie détenant le grade de soldat.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agrde,gadre,gardde,gared,garrde,ggarde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for garde
Misspelling Variants of "garde"
Frequency rank: #613 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter G in our French index: