glu

/[ɡly]/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

glu is aGermannoun. It means: aus der Rinde (genauer dem Bast) der Stechpalme oder aus den Beeren der Mistel gewonnener Klebstoff, der (hauptsächlich auf sogenannte Leimruten gestrichen) zum Fangen kleiner Vögel dient Pronounced [ɡly].

Key facts for glu
PropertyValue
Headwordglu
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ɡly]
Letters3
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

glu is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for glu is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡly]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for glu in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 German form is glu, spelled G-L-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    aus der Rinde (genauer dem Bast) der Stechpalme oder aus den Beeren der Mistel gewonnener Klebstoff, der (hauptsächlich auf sogenannte Leimruten gestrichen) zum Fangen kleiner Vögel dient
  2. 2
    zähflüssige, klebrige Masse
  3. 3
    durch übermäßige Anhänglichkeit lästig gewordene Person
  4. 4
    Wassertier mit radiär-symmetrischem Körper von gallertig-knorpeliger Konsistenz

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "glu"?
"glu" is spelled G-L-U. The IPA pronunciation is [ɡly].
What does "glu" mean?
As a noun, "glu" means: aus der Rinde (genauer dem Bast) der Stechpalme oder aus den Beeren der Mistel gewonnener Klebstoff, der (hauptsächlich auf sogenannte Leimruten gestrichen) zum Fangen kleiner Vögel dient
How do you pronounce "glu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glu" is [ɡly]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "glu" come from?
"glu" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.