garnement
\ɡaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“garnement” is uncommon French (frequency #76,605 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,605
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mauvais sujet, vaurien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garnement · garnement · French
garnement · rank #76,605 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,605
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gaspacho
Nearest frequency peer: gaspacho (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « garnement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- fuzzy
fuzzy
23,401 corpus weight
- féconds
féconds
23,399 corpus weight
- garnement
garnement
23,396 corpus weight
- gaspacho
gaspacho
23,395 corpus weight
- gaudium
gaudium
23,393 corpus weight
- gaves
gaves
23,391 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « garnement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garnement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « garnement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
garnement is uncommon French at frequency #76,605 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for garnement in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is garnement, spelled G-A-R-N-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Mauvais sujet, vaurien.
- 2Enfant mal élevé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how garnement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ce qui fit surtout de lui le pire des garnements, ce fut le beau dédain qu’il contracta pour les pauvres diables qui gagnaient le matin leur pain du soir.
Le garnement alla plus loin, quémandant à chaque table une consommation que tous lui refusaient.
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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