glabreté
\ɡla.bʁə.te\
The verdict
“glabreté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait d'être glabre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glabrete · glabreté · French
glabreté · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | glabreté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡla.bʁə.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
glabreté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡla.bʁə.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fait d'être glabre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glabreté, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is glabreté, spelled G-L-A-B-R-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Fait d'être glabre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glabreté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus je réfléchissais aux raisons fournies habituellement pour appuyer la glabreté obligatoire des femmes, du cou aux orteils, moins elles me semblaient convaincantes.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.