garder la bique
\ɡaʁ.de la bik\
The verdict
“garder la bique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être puni d’une retenue, à l’école ^([1]).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garder la bique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.de la bik\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garder la bique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for garder la bique is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.de la bik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for garder la bique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is garder la bique, spelled G-A-R-D-E-R- -L-A- -B-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être puni d’une retenue, à l’école ^([1]).
- 2Tenir le rôle d'assesseur dans un bureau de vote.
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 “garder la bique”
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-R-D-E-R- -L-A- -B-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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