garde d’enfants
\ɡaʁd d‿ɑ̃.fɑ̃\
The verdict
“garde d’enfants” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Activité consistant à prendre soin d’enfants en l’absence de leurs parents, qu’elle soit assurée par un membre de la famille, une assistante maternelle, une nounou, un établissement spécialisé ou d...
Corpus desk
Index FR-garde-d-enfants · garde d’enfants · French
garde d’enfants · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 d’enfants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁd d‿ɑ̃.fɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garde d’enfants” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
garde d’enfants is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁd d‿ɑ̃.fɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Activité consistant à prendre soin d’enfants en l’absence de leurs parents, qu’elle soit assurée par un membre de la famille, une assistante maternelle, une nounou, un établissement spécialisé ou d...".
Zero misspellings are on record for garde d’enfants in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is garde d’enfants, spelled G-A-R-D-E- -D-’-E-N-F-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Activité consistant à prendre soin d’enfants en l’absence de leurs parents, qu’elle soit assurée par un membre de la famille, une assistante maternelle, une nounou, un établissement spécialisé ou dans le cadre d’un emploi à domicile.
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