garnit
\ɡaʁ.ni\
The verdict
“garnit” is uncommon French (frequency #91,729 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,729
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de garnir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garnit · garnit · French
garnit · rank #91,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,729
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gargariser
Nearest frequency peer: gargariser (-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 « garnit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gamification
gamification
8,275 corpus weight
- Garaud
Garaud
8,274 corpus weight
- gargariser
gargariser
8,273 corpus weight
- garnit
garnit
8,272 corpus weight
- geno
geno
8,271 corpus weight
- genouillères
genouillères
8,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « garnit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garnit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡaʁ.ni\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « garnit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
garnit is uncommon French at frequency #91,729 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡaʁ.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for garnit, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is garnit, spelled G-A-R-N-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de garnir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de garnir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how garnit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il garnit la chaudière de petit bois et l’allume, puis il prélève quelques tisons pour embraiser ses sabots.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).