garder le silence
\ɡaʁ.de lə si.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“garder le silence” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Se taire.
| 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) |
Where “garder le silence” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for garder le silence is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.de lə si.lɑ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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 le silence”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-A-R-D-E-R- -L-E- -S-I-L-E-N-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.