Glamor or glamour?
glamor is a noun meaning “Uncommon spelling of glamour”; glamour is a noun meaning “Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that…”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) glamour is about 15 times as common as glamor.
What is the difference between glamor and glamour?
| glamor | glamour | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, verb | noun, verb |
| Meaning | USUncommon spelling of glamour | Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make… Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal) To enchant; to bewitch |
| Example | none recorded | glamour magazines; a glamour model |
| Forms | glamors | glamours |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /ˈɡlæmə/ /ˈɡlamə/ /ˈɡlaməɾ/ |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words | 3.2 times per million words |
Sources: glamor and glamour in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of glamor and glamour
glamor
- 1
USUncommon spelling of glamour
- 2
USUncommon spelling of glamour
glamour
- 1
Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem…
- 2
To enchant; to bewitch
- 3
Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal)
glamour magazines; a glamour model
- 4
Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing
The idea of being a movie star has lost its glamour for me
- 5
Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified
- 6
A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are
- 7
An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance
- 8
slangA beautiful woman
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, glamor or glamour?
glamor appears about once in every 5 million words; glamour 3.2 times per million words.
glamor about once in every 5 million wordsglamour 3.2 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search glamor vs glamour?
“glamor vs glamour” is searched about 480 times a month on Google and 20 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“glamour vs glamor”, “glamor or glamour”).
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