garder le silence
\ɡaʁ.de lə si.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“garder le silence” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se taire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garder-le-silence · garder le silence · French
garder le silence · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | garder le silence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.de lə si.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « garder le silence » en français
Rare enough to double-check
garder le silence is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡaʁ.de lə si.lɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Se taire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for garder le silence in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with 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 garder le silence, spelled G-A-R-D-E-R- -L-E- -S-I-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Se taire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how garder le silence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Guillaume, qui se sentait ébranlé par le talent de Léon plus qu’il ne voulait en convenir, devint de plus en plus triste, et finit par garder le silence.
Mais il savait qu'il fallait garder le silence sur les origines du fils de Will Parker et, même avec un coup dans le nez, il avait maintenu cachées certaines parties de sa vie.
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.