gardien
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,778
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
gardien is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui garde, surveille quelqu’un ou quelque chose. Pronounced \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃\. It ranks #2,778 in French word frequency. Often confused with gaudin and garnie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gardien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gardien is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,778 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for gardien, with forms such as "agrdien", "gadrien", and "garddien". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "gaudin", "garnie", "Garnier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 gardien, spelled G-A-R-D-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui garde, surveille quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 2Protecteur, personne qui protège quelque chose.
- 3Conservateur, personne chargée de veiller à la conservation d’une chose.
- 4Gardien de but.
- 5Celui qui est commis par justice pour garder des meubles saisis, des scellés, etc.
- 6Supérieur de certaines congrégations.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agrdien,gadrien,garddien,gardein,gardienn,gardine,gariden,garrdien,ggardien,gradien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gardien
Misspelling Variants of "gardien"
Frequency rank: #2,778 in French
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Nearby French words
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