glottal stop
/ɡlɒtəl stɒp/
"glottal-stop" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glottal stop” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A plosive sound articulated with the glottis.
Corpus desk
Index EN-glottal-stop · glottal stop · English
glottal stop · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glottal stop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡlɒtəl stɒp/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glottal stop” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
glottal stop is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡlɒtəl stɒp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for glottal stop, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is glottal stop, spelled G-L-O-T-T-A-L- -S-T-O-P.
Definition
- 1A plosive sound articulated with the glottis.
- 2The glottal stop symbol, ʔ.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glottal stop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Both EE and SSBE feature glottal stops – unvoiced Ts – but in EE it can happen in the middle of words – eg “wa’er for “water” – whereas in SSBE it happens only at the end of words.
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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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