garder un chien de sa chienne

\ɡaʁ.de œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ dsa ʃjɛn\

/\ɡaʁ.de œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ dsa ʃjɛn\/ verb

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.

Key facts for garder un chien de sa chienne
PropertyValue
Headwordgarder un chien de sa chienne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɡaʁ.de œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ dsa ʃjɛn\
Letters29
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “garder un chien de sa chienne” sits in French frequency

garder un chien de sa chienne falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Garder 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "garder un chien de sa chienne"?
"garder un chien de sa chienne" is 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. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡaʁ.de œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ dsa ʃjɛn\.
What does "garder un chien de sa chienne" mean?
As a verb, "garder un chien de sa chienne" means: Garder rancune et mettre au point une vengeance.
How do you pronounce "garder un chien de sa chienne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "garder un chien de sa chienne" is \ɡaʁ.de œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ dsa ʃjɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “garder un chien de sa chienne”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as \ɡaʁ.de œ̃ ʃjɛ̃ dsa ʃjɛn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.

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