gardiens

\ɡaʁ.djɛ̃\

/\ɡaʁ.djɛ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“gardiens” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,704. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,704
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de gardien.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gardiens · gardiens · French

gardiens · rank #6,704 · 12 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,704
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH frigo

Nearest frequency peer: frigo (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gardiens »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « gardiens » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gardiens vs gardons
75% similar
gardiens vs garnies
75% similar
gardiens vs gardes
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gardiens
PropertyValue
Headwordgardiens
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɡaʁ.djɛ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,704
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gardiens »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).gardiensse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « frigo » (#6,703), « grade » (#6,705), « fondamentaux » (#6,702). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gardiens » est au #6,704. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around gardiens (IPA \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,704 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de gardien.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for gardiens, with forms such as "agrdiens", "gadriens", and "garddiens". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "gardons", "garnies", "gardes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is gardiens, spelled G-A-R-D-I-E-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de gardien.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how gardiens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Face aux tourmentes, aux vents d’Ouest venus du large, soutenue par les lierres géants qui se sont agriffés à ses millénaires murailles, que leurs trois mètres d’épaisseur ont accueillis et qui la font désormais éternelle, on se la figure un de ses farouches veilleurs des temps passés, gardiens du pays qui les entoure et prête à donner l’alarme si quelque…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agrdiens
  • gadriens
  • garddiens
  • gardeins
  • gardienns
  • gardienss
  • gardiesn
  • gardines
  • garidens
  • garrdiens
  • ggardiens
  • gradiens

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gardiens - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

agrdiens2gadriens2garddiens1gardeins2gardienns1gardienss1gardiesn2gardines2
Edit distance from "gardiens"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gardiens"?
"gardiens" is spelled G-A-R-D-I-E-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃\.
What does "gardiens" mean?
As an adjective, "gardiens" means: Masculin pluriel de gardien.
What words are commonly confused with "gardiens"?
"gardiens" is commonly confused with "gardons", "garnies", "gardes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gardiens"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gardiens" is \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gardiens" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gardiens", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list