garde du corps
\ɡaʁd dy kɔʁ\
The verdict
“garde du corps” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat affecté à la défense d'un personnage important de l’État.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garde-du-corps · garde du corps · French
garde du corps · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 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 du corps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁd dy kɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
garde du corps is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁd dy kɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how garde du corps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les compagnies du corps de la gendarmerie qui composent la maison du roi, sont les quatre compagnies des gardes-du-corps, celle des gendarmes de la garde, celle des chevau-legers, & les deux compagnies de mousquetaires. La compagnie des grenadiers-à-cheval est toûjours à la suite de ce corps, mais elle n’en fait pas partie.
Pierre et moi avons suivi Yannick et la jolie Noire qui s'accrochait à son bras vers un petit salon, d'où les gardes du corps de Met Y avaient chassé les couples qui s’y minouchaient.
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.