garret
/ˈɡɑrːet/
The verdict
“garret” is uncommon French (frequency #70,671 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,671
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peler, éplucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-garret · garret · French
garret · rank #70,671 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,671
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gargantuesque
Nearest frequency peer: gargantuesque (-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 « garret »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Garfunkel
Garfunkel
29,332 corpus weight
- gargantuesq…
gargantuesque
29,331 corpus weight
- garret
garret
29,330 corpus weight
- Gatwick
Gatwick
29,329 corpus weight
- Gillard
Gillard
29,327 corpus weight
- gimme
gimme
29,326 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « garret » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | garret |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɡɑrːet/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « garret » en français
Rare enough to double-check
garret is uncommon French at frequency #70,671 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈɡɑrːet/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
garret doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is garret, spelled G-A-R-R-E-T.
Definition
- 1Peler, éplucher.
- 2Décroûter, écailler.
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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