gardien de la paix
\ɡaʁ.djɛ̃ də la pɛ\
The verdict
“gardien de la paix” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Agent de police armé qui est chargé de maintenir le bon ordre dans les lieux publics, ou personne ayant le grade associé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gardien de la paix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃ də la pɛ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gardien de la paix” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gardien de la paix is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃ də la pɛ\. 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: "Agent de police armé qui est chargé de maintenir le bon ordre dans les lieux publics, ou personne ayant le grade associé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gardien de la paix, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 gardien de la paix, spelled G-A-R-D-I-E-N- -D-E- -L-A- -P-A-I-X.
Definition
- 1Agent de police armé qui est chargé de maintenir le bon ordre dans les lieux publics, ou personne ayant le grade associé.
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 practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-A-R-D-I-E-N- -D-E- -L-A- -P-A-I-X - 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.