garder un chien de sa chienne
\ɡaʁ.de œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ dsa ʃjɛn\
The verdict
“garder un chien de sa chienne” 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
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Garder rancune et mettre au point une vengeance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garder un chien de sa chienne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.de œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ dsa ʃjɛn\ |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “garder un chien de sa chienne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for garder un chien de sa chienne is 29 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.de œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ dsa ʃjɛn\. 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: "Garder rancune et mettre au point une vengeance.".
No misspelling variants are generated for garder un chien de sa chienne 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 un chien de sa chienne, spelled G-A-R-D-E-R- -U-N- -C-H-I-E-N- -D-E- -S-A- -C-H-I-E-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Garder rancune et mettre au point une vengeance.
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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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-R-D-E-R- -U-N- -C-H-I-E-N- -D-E- -S-A- -C-H-I-E-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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