garnison

\ɡaʁ.ni.zɔ̃\

/\ɡaʁ.ni.zɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“garnison” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,711. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,711
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corps de troupes qu’on met dans une place, dans une forteresse pour la défendre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-garnison · garnison · French

garnison · rank #10,711 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,711
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH fréquents

Nearest frequency peer: fréquents (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « garnison »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « garnison » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

garnison vs garrison
88% similar
garnison vs garnisons
89% similar
garnison vs garnis
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for garnison
PropertyValue
Headwordgarnison
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡaʁ.ni.zɔ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#10,711
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « garnison »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).garnisonse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « fréquents » (#10,709), « girard » (#10,713), « freins » (#10,708). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « garnison » est au #10,711. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around garnison (IPA \ɡaʁ.ni.zɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,711 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for garnison, with forms such as "agrnison", "ganrison", and "garinson". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "garrison", "garnisons", "garnis", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 garnison, spelled G-A-R-N-I-S-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Corps de troupes qu’on met dans une place, dans une forteresse pour la défendre.
  2. 2
    Corps de troupes caserné dans une ville.
  3. 3
    Ville de garnison.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how garnison appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La garnison se composait de trente-deux Suisses et de quatre-vingt-deux invalides. La Bastille n'était-elle pas imprenable ?
  2. …car il était aisé à la garnison de garder les bords de l’Aude, au moyen de la grande barbacane (…) qui permettait de faire des sorties avec des forces imposantes et de culbuter les assiégeants dans le fleuve.

This word in other languages

garrison(English)guarnición(Español)Garnison(Deutsch)guarnição(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • agrnison
  • ganrison
  • garinson
  • garniosn
  • garnisno
  • garnisonn
  • garnisson
  • garnnison
  • garnsion
  • garrnison
  • ggarnison
  • granison

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of garnison - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

agrnison2ganrison2garinson2garniosn2garnisno2garnisonn1garnisson1garnnison1
Edit distance from "garnison"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "garnison"?
"garnison" is spelled G-A-R-N-I-S-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡaʁ.ni.zɔ̃\.
What does "garnison" mean?
As a noun, "garnison" means: Corps de troupes qu’on met dans une place, dans une forteresse pour la défendre.
What words are commonly confused with "garnison"?
"garnison" is commonly confused with "garrison", "garnisons", "garnis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "garnison"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "garnison" is \ɡaʁ.ni.zɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "garnison" come from?
"garnison" 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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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "garnison", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

homogène#10,717humilité#10,718imagines#10,720entrepôt#10,700

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

insister12 variantsengagées12 variantsitaliennes12 variantsdirectes12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list