garde-côte
\ɡaʁ.də.kot\
The verdict
“garde-côte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne chargée de la surveillance des côtes et de missions de police maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garde-cote · garde-côte · French
garde-côte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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-côte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.də.kot\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
garde-côte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ.də.kot\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne chargée de la surveillance des côtes et de missions de police maritime.".
Zero misspellings are on record for garde-côte in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is garde-côte, spelled G-A-R-D-E---C-Ô-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne chargée de la surveillance des côtes et de missions de police maritime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how garde-côte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'homme, qui était un garde-côte, comme le faisait voir sa cape d'uniforme, épiait toutes les manœuvres du trois-mâts et semblait en prendre note mentalement.
[…] soit pour se livrer en cachette à la pêche du poisson. Malheur à eux quand ils sont découverts par les garde-côtes, car leurs filets sont impitoyablement confisqués et leurs bateaux mis en fourrière.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.