guardia
\ɡwar.ðja\
The verdict
“guardia” is uncommon French (frequency #54,619 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,619
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garde, corps de gardes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-guardia · guardia · French
guardia · rank #54,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,619
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guacamole
Nearest frequency peer: guacamole (-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 « guardia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Groland
Groland
45,384 corpus weight
- guacamole
guacamole
45,383 corpus weight
- guardia
guardia
45,382 corpus weight
- guenon
guenon
45,381 corpus weight
- gueulant
gueulant
45,380 corpus weight
- guidance
guidance
45,379 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « guardia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | guardia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡwar.ðja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « guardia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
guardia is uncommon French at frequency #54,619 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡwar.ðja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for guardia in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is guardia, spelled G-U-A-R-D-I-A.
Definition
- 1Garde, corps de gardes.
- 2Gendarmerie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guardia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La guardia de honor.
La guardia civil.
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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