gendarmerie
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,457
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
gendarmerie is aFrenchnoun. It means: L’enquête continue sur le crime de la Sauge-aux-Bois. […]. Agissant en vertu d’un mandat d’amener décerné par M. le juge d’instruction de Rethel, la gendarmerie de Chaumont-Porcien a mis en état d’... Pronounced \ʒɑ̃.daʁ.mə.ʁi\. It ranks #5,457 in French word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gendarmerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒɑ̃.daʁ.mə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #5,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gendarmerie is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒɑ̃.daʁ.mə.ʁi\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,457 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for gendarmerie, with forms such as "egndarmerie", "gednarmerie", and "genadrmerie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gendarmerie, spelled G-E-N-D-A-R-M-E-R-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1L’enquête continue sur le crime de la Sauge-aux-Bois. […]. Agissant en vertu d’un mandat d’amener décerné par M. le juge d’instruction de Rethel, la gendarmerie de Chaumont-Porcien a mis en état d’arrestation Jacques Picart cultivateur à Draize, gendre de David, la victime de la Sauge-aux-Bois. — (« Partie locale & régionale », dans Le Bulletin de Vouziers, 14ᵉ année, n° 861, dimanche 28 juin 1896, p. 1)
- 2Force armée chargée de la police administrative du territoire.
- 3Caserne où les gendarmes exercent leur fonction et sont logés.
- 4Abrégement de Gendarmerie nationale.
- 5Système de surveillance et de maintien de l’ordre.
- 6Tout le corps des gendarmes et des chevau-légers des compagnies d’ordonnance, autres que les gendarmes et les chevau-légers de la garde du roi.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: egndarmerie,gednarmerie,genadrmerie,gendamrerie,gendaremrie,gendarmeire,gendarmerei,gendarmerrie,gendarmmerie,gendarmreie,gendarrmerie,genddarmerie,gendramerie,genndarmerie,ggendarmerie,gnedarmerie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gendarmerie
Misspelling Variants of "gendarmerie"
Frequency rank: #5,457 in French
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Nearby French words
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