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The verdict

“gl” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,745) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#26,745
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bonne chance.

Corpus desk

Index FR-gl · gl · French

gl · rank #26,745 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,745
  • LEN-SHORT 2 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH generale

Nearest frequency peer: generale (-1 rank slots)

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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « gl »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « gl » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

gl vs go
50% similar
gl vs GR
0% similar
gl vs GT
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for gl
PropertyValue
Headwordgl
LanguageFrench
Part of speechInterjection
Letters2
Frequency rank#26,745
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gl »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.glse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « generale » (#26,744), « gothiques » (#26,746), « Gavin » (#26,743). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « gl » est au #26,745. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for gl is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #26,745 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Bonne chance.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for gl in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is gl, spelled G-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bonne chance.

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gl"?
"gl" is spelled G-L.
What does "gl" mean?
As an interjection, "gl" means: Bonne chance.
What words are commonly confused with "gl"?
"gl" is commonly confused with "go", "GR", "GT". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "gl" come from?
"gl" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list