gare routière

\ɡaʁ ʁu.tjɛʁ\

/\ɡaʁ ʁu.tjɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“gare routière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lieu consacré, dans une ville, au stationnement des autocars effectuant des liaisons avec des localités éloignées, à leur départ et à leur arrivée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gare-routiere · gare routière · French

gare routière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "G" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for gare routière
PropertyValue
Headwordgare routière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡaʁ ʁu.tjɛʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “gare routière” sits in French frequency

gare routière falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

gare routière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ ʁu.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lieu consacré, dans une ville, au stationnement des autocars effectuant des liaisons avec des localités éloignées, à leur départ et à leur arrivée.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for gare routière, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

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 gare routière, spelled G-A-R-E- -R-O-U-T-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu consacré, dans une ville, au stationnement des autocars effectuant des liaisons avec des localités éloignées, à leur départ et à leur arrivée.

Synonyms

autogaregare d’autocars

This word in other languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gare routière"?
"gare routière" is spelled G-A-R-E- -R-O-U-T-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡaʁ ʁu.tjɛʁ\.
What does "gare routière" mean?
As a noun, "gare routière" means: Lieu consacré, dans une ville, au stationnement des autocars effectuant des liaisons avec des localités éloignées, à leur départ et à leur arrivée.
How do you pronounce "gare routière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gare routière" is \ɡaʁ ʁu.tjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gare routière" come from?
"gare routière" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list