garde du corps
\ɡaʁd dy kɔʁ\
The verdict
“garde du corps” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Soldat affecté à la défense d'un personnage important de l’État.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garde du corps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁd dy kɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garde du corps” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for garde du corps is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁd dy kɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for garde du corps, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 du corps, spelled G-A-R-D-E- -D-U- -C-O-R-P-S.
Definition
- 1Soldat affecté à la défense d'un personnage important de l’État.
- 2Escorte qui protège, certaines personnes dont la sécurité peut être menacée.
- 3Personne qui en escorte une autre.
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.
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Using “garde du corps”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-A-R-D-E- -D-U- -C-O-R-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡaʁd dy kɔʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.