gardon
\ɡaʁ.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“gardon” is uncommon French (frequency #57,290 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,290
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson osseux d’eau douce d’Europe et d'Asie, assez petits, de la famille des cyprinidés, en particulier le gardon commun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gardon · gardon · French
gardon · rank #57,290 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,290
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH félicitait
Nearest frequency peer: félicitait (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « gardon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- furies
furies
42,715 corpus weight
- fécales
fécales
42,714 corpus weight
- félicitait
félicitait
42,713 corpus weight
- gardon
gardon
42,711 corpus weight
- Gaudreault
Gaudreault
42,709 corpus weight
- gelais
gelais
42,707 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « gardon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gardon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « gardon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
gardon is uncommon French at frequency #57,290 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poisson osseux d’eau douce d’Europe et d'Asie, assez petits, de la famille des cyprinidés, en particulier le gardon commun.".
No misspelling variants are generated for gardon in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 gardon, spelled G-A-R-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Poisson osseux d’eau douce d’Europe et d'Asie, assez petits, de la famille des cyprinidés, en particulier le gardon commun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gardon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jeter un gardon pour avoir un brochet, faire un petit cadeau pour en recevoir un plus grand.
Il faisait bon y pêcher des gardons et des vandoises dans les remous.
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); 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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