gardien de prison
\ɡaʁ.djɛ̃ də pʁi.zɔ̃\
The verdict
“gardien de prison” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Geôlier.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gardien de prison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃ də pʁi.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gardien de prison” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gardien de prison is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃ də pʁi.zɔ̃\. 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: "Geôlier.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gardien de prison, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 gardien de prison, spelled G-A-R-D-I-E-N- -D-E- -P-R-I-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Geôlier.
This word in other languages
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- -P-R-I-S-O-N - 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.