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glave

/ɡleɪv/noun

glave is spelled G-L-A-V-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, glave means “Alternative form of glaive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of glave is glaves.

How many letters and syllables are in glave?

Letters5: G-L-A-V-E
In writingabout once in every 49 million words; the 217,360th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is glave?

Glave appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce glave?

  • US /ɡleɪv/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-glaive.wav, En-us-glaive.mp3, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with glave

Sounds like: glaive (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with glave?

8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as glave from its last stressed vowel (/eɪv/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: gavel.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of glave

  • glaves plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does glave mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of glaive.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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