garde-crotte
\ɡaʁ.də.kʁɔt\
The verdict
“garde-crotte” 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) - Lame de bois, de métal ou de cuir, ordinairement courbe, placée au-devant des roues pour les garantir des éclaboussures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garde-crotte · garde-crotte · French
garde-crotte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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-crotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.də.kʁɔt\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « garde-crotte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
garde-crotte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ.də.kʁɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for garde-crotte in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is garde-crotte, spelled G-A-R-D-E---C-R-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Lame de bois, de métal ou de cuir, ordinairement courbe, placée au-devant des roues pour les garantir des éclaboussures.
- 2Protection en métal, parfois recouverte de cuir ou de bois, qui empêche les meneurs d’attelage d’être éclaboussés par de l’eau, du crottin ou de la terre.
- 3Oreille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how garde-crotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voyait qu’il avait fait, misérablement, sans grand résultat, des frais de toilette, et les pans de sa jaquette élimée battaient le garde-crotte de son vélocipède…
Si [la pente] descendait nous plongions en avant sur les jarrets du cheval et ne recevions plus de jour que par l'intermédiaire de la capote et du garde-crotte qui tendaient à se refermer sur nous.
Synonyms
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.