saines comme des gardons
\sɛn kɔm de ɡaʁ.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“saines comme des gardons” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Féminin pluriel de sain comme un gardon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | saines comme des gardons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \sɛn kɔm de ɡaʁ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “saines comme des gardons” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for saines comme des gardons is 24 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛn kɔm de ɡaʁ.dɔ̃\. 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: "Féminin pluriel de sain comme un gardon.".
No misspelling variants are generated for saines comme des gardons in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 saines comme des gardons, spelled S-A-I-N-E-S- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E-S- -G-A-R-D-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de sain comme un gardon.
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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- The one correct French spelling is S-A-I-N-E-S- -C-O-M-M-E- -D-E-S- -G-A-R-D-O-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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