gardeur
\ɡaʁ.dœʁ\
The verdict
“gardeur” is uncommon French (frequency #85,747 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,747
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui garde des animaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gardeur · gardeur · French
gardeur · rank #85,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,747
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH ganja
Nearest frequency peer: ganja (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gardeur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gallicane
gallicane
14,257 corpus weight
- galérien
galérien
14,256 corpus weight
- ganja
ganja
14,255 corpus weight
- gardeur
gardeur
14,254 corpus weight
- Gaudreau
Gaudreau
14,253 corpus weight
- gazinière
gazinière
14,252 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gardeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gardeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gardeur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gardeur is uncommon French at frequency #85,747 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gardeur, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is gardeur, spelled G-A-R-D-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui garde des animaux.
- 2Celui qui assure la garde d'enfants.
- 3Celui qui conserve des objets durablement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gardeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les oiseaux faisaient entendre leurs prolixes concerts ; le chant monotone d'un gardeur de chèvres y joignait une sorte de mélancolie, […].
Bientôt, trouvant qu’une seule femme légitime ne lui suffisait pas, Haribert donna solennellement le titre d’épouse et de reine à une fille nommée Theodehilde, dont le père était gardeur de troupeaux.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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