glabrous
/ˈɡleɪbɹəs/
"glabrous" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glabrous” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,359. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,359
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bald, hairless; smooth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-glabrous · glabrous · English
glabrous · rank #49,359 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,359
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gloved
Nearest frequency peer: gloved (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “glabrous”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Gerda
Gerda
50,646 corpus weight
- Gippsland
Gippsland
50,645 corpus weight
- glabrous
glabrous
50,642 corpus weight
- gloved
gloved
50,640 corpus weight
- gnaw
gnaw
50,639 corpus weight
- godson
godson
50,638 corpus weight
What this shows “glabrous” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glabrous |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɡleɪbɹəs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “glabrous”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around glabrous (IPA /ˈɡleɪbɹəs/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,359 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bald, hairless; smooth.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for glabrous, with forms such as "galbrous", "gglabrous", and "glabbrous". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "glamorous", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin glaber (“smooth; bald, hairless”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives, denoting possession or presence of a quality in any degree, commonly in abundance). Glaber is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleh₂dʰ- (“smooth; bright, sh… The correct English form is glabrous, spelled G-L-A-B-R-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Bald, hairless; smooth.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glabrous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[T]he Vernacula or French Elm, whoſe leaves are thicker, and more florid, glabrous and ſmooth, delighting in the lower and moiſter grounds, where they will ſometimes riſe to above an hundred foot in height; […]
[Crotalaria obtecta] Stems tall, erect, branched: stipules not decurrent: leaves simple, usually glabrous on the upper side: […] legumes oblong, many-seeded, glabrous or softly pubescent.
Etymology
From Latin glaber (“smooth; bald, hairless”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives, denoting possession or presence of a quality in any degree, commonly in abundance). Glaber is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *gʰleh₂dʰ- (“smooth; bright, shining”), possibly from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”).
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- galbrous
- gglabrous
- glabbrous
- glaborus
- glabrosu
- glabrouss
- glabrrous
- glabruos
- glarbous
- glbarous
- gllabrous
- lgabrous
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glabrous - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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