garnet
\ɡɑː(ɹ).nət\
The verdict
“garnet” is uncommon French (frequency #99,130 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,130
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grenat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garnet · garnet · French
garnet · rank #99,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,130
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH garan
Nearest frequency peer: garan (-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 « garnet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- galvan
galvan
875 corpus weight
- gamepad
gamepad
874 corpus weight
- garan
garan
873 corpus weight
- garnet
garnet
871 corpus weight
- Gasse
Gasse
869 corpus weight
- gatto
gatto
867 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « garnet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garnet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡɑː(ɹ).nət\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « garnet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
garnet is uncommon French at frequency #99,130 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡɑː(ɹ).nət\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for garnet, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is garnet, spelled G-A-R-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Grenat.
- 2Grenat.
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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