mettre en garde
\mɛtʁ‿ɑ̃ ɡaʁd\
The verdict
“mettre en garde” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Conseiller la circonspection ; avertir d'un risque.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mettre en garde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛtʁ‿ɑ̃ ɡaʁd\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mettre en garde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mettre en garde is 15 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛtʁ‿ɑ̃ ɡaʁd\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Conseiller la circonspection ; avertir d'un risque.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mettre en garde, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mettre en garde, spelled M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -G-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Conseiller la circonspection ; avertir d'un risque.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mettre en garde”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-T-T-R-E- -E-N- -G-A-R-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mɛtʁ‿ɑ̃ ɡaʁd\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.