gardons
\ɡaʁ.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“gardons” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,842. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,842
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de gardon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gardons · gardons · French
gardons · rank #19,842 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,842
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gammes
Nearest frequency peer: gammes (-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 « gardons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- flop
flop
80,163 corpus weight
- friend
friend
80,161 corpus weight
- gammes
gammes
80,160 corpus weight
- gardons
gardons
80,159 corpus weight
- gazeuse
gazeuse
80,157 corpus weight
- genevois
genevois
80,156 corpus weight
What this shows « gardons » 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 | gardons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gardons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around gardons (IPA \ɡaʁ.dɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,842 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de gardon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for gardons, with forms such as "agrdons", "gadrons", and "garddons". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Gordon", "garous", "garçon", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gardons, spelled G-A-R-D-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de gardon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gardons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu regardais sortir les ablettes et les gardons de l’eau.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agrdons
- gadrons
- garddons
- gardnos
- gardonns
- gardonss
- gardosn
- garodns
- garrdons
- ggardons
- gradons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gardons - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "gardons", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).