garde au sol
\ɡaʁ.d‿o sɔl\
The verdict
“garde au sol” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espace le plus court entre le sol et la partie la plus basse d'un véhicule, situé entre le train avant et le train arrière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garde-au-sol · garde au sol · French
garde au sol · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garde au sol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.d‿o sɔl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garde au sol” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
garde au sol is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ.d‿o sɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
garde au sol has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is garde au sol, spelled G-A-R-D-E- -A-U- -S-O-L.
Definition
- 1Espace le plus court entre le sol et la partie la plus basse d'un véhicule, situé entre le train avant et le train arrière.
- 2Capacité d'une moto à s’incliner dans les virages avant que le flanc de la moto n'entre en contact avec le sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how garde au sol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La garde au sol d'un 4 X 4.
Ce véhicule se caractérise par une très faible garde au sol, de l’ordre de 15 cm, modifiable grâce à des systèmes hydrauliques positionnés au niveau du col de cygne à l’avant de la semi-remorque et au niveau des essieux arrière.
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