gare routière
\ɡaʁ ʁu.tjɛʁ\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gare routière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ ʁu.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gare routière” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Lieu consacré, dans une ville, au stationnement des autocars effectuant des liaisons avec des localités éloignées, à leur départ et à leur arrivée.
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