glabre
\ɡlɑbʁ\
The verdict
“glabre” is uncommon French (frequency #53,377 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,377
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est sans poils, sans duvet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glabre · glabre · French
glabre · rank #53,377 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,377
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gillette
Nearest frequency peer: gillette (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « glabre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gigas
gigas
46,626 corpus weight
- gillette
gillette
46,625 corpus weight
- glabre
glabre
46,624 corpus weight
- glad
glad
46,623 corpus weight
- glissez
glissez
46,622 corpus weight
- gnomes
gnomes
46,621 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glabre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glabre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡlɑbʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glabre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glabre is uncommon French at frequency #53,377 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡlɑbʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for glabre in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is glabre, spelled G-L-A-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est sans poils, sans duvet.
- 2Qualifie une plante ne portant pas de poil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glabre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a moins d’un siècle à peine, en France, seuls étaient glabres les hommes d’Église et les domestiques. Barbes fluviales des socialistes et des anarchistes, favoris des libéraux et des maitres d’hôtel, impériale des bonapartistes, rouflaquettes des apaches, les visages affichaient les convictions politiques et les conditions sociales.
Il fut accueilli par une grande dame pâle, large de hanches, avec une verrue glabre placée près de l’une des narines de son nez bulbeux.
This word in other languages
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.
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