gardiens
\ɡaʁ.djɛ̃\
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
- fa
fa
93,300 corpus weight
- fondamentaux
fondamentaux
93,299 corpus weight
- frigo
frigo
93,298 corpus weight
- gardiens
gardiens
93,297 corpus weight
- grade
grade
93,296 corpus weight
- habitué
habitué
93,295 corpus weight
What this shows « gardiens » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gardiens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.djɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gardiens »
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
- 1Masculin pluriel de gardien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gardiens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).