gardienne de but
\ɡaʁ.djɛn də by\
The verdict
“gardienne de but” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Joueuse dont le rôle est spécifiquement d’empêcher la balle ou le palet d’entrer dans le but dans des sports collectifs tels que le handball, le football (ou soccer), le water-polo, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gardienne de but |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.djɛn də by\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gardienne de but” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gardienne de but is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡaʁ.djɛn də by\. 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: "Joueuse dont le rôle est spécifiquement d’empêcher la balle ou le palet d’entrer dans le but dans des sports collectifs tels que le handball, le football (ou soccer), le water-polo, etc.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gardienne de but in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 gardienne de but, spelled G-A-R-D-I-E-N-N-E- -D-E- -B-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Joueuse dont le rôle est spécifiquement d’empêcher la balle ou le palet d’entrer dans le but dans des sports collectifs tels que le handball, le football (ou soccer), le water-polo, etc.
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Using “gardienne de but”
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-R-D-I-E-N-N-E- -D-E- -B-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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