gardien de la paix
\ɡaʁ.djɛ̃ də la pɛ\
The verdict
“gardien de la paix” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agent de police armé qui est chargé de maintenir le bon ordre dans les lieux publics, ou personne ayant le grade associé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gardien-de-la-paix · gardien de la paix · French
gardien de la paix · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « gardien de la paix » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gardien de la paix is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃ də la pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gardien de la paix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le municipal de rigueur, métamorphosé en gardien de la paix, se tient là dans le but de maintenir l’intégrité de la queue.
Mais au moment où Cœur-de-Lion prenait Thermidor dans ses bras pour franchir la porte, il trouva à qui parler. Un gardien de la paix s’écria : - On ne passe pas !
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.