glaçage

\ɡla.saʒ\

/\ɡla.saʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“glaçage” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,712. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,712
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de glacer, d’appliquer sur un objet un enduit qui lui donne l’apparence du vernis, par exemple d’appliquer un sirop à base de sucre glace sur un gâteau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-glacage · glaçage · French

glaçage · rank #33,712 · 10 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,712
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gitane

Nearest frequency peer: gitane (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « glaçage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « glaçage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

glaçage vs glace
57% similar
glaçage vs glacée
57% similar
glaçage vs glaçant
71% similar

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

Key facts for glaçage
PropertyValue
Headwordglaçage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡla.saʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#33,712
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glaçage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).glaçagese 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 « gitane » (#33,711), « glorifier » (#33,713), « giga » (#33,710). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « glaçage » est au #33,712. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around glaçage (IPA \ɡla.saʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,712 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for glaçage, with forms such as "galçage", "gglaçage", and "glaaçge". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "glace", "glacée", "glaçant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is glaçage, spelled G-L-A-Ç-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de glacer, d’appliquer sur un objet un enduit qui lui donne l’apparence du vernis, par exemple d’appliquer un sirop à base de sucre glace sur un gâteau.
  2. 2
    Action de glacer, d’appliquer sur un objet un enduit qui lui donne l’apparence du vernis, par exemple d’appliquer un sirop à base de sucre glace sur un gâteau.
  3. 3
    Couche ainsi formée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how glaçage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. – Tu es une pauvre idiote, je me dis en enlevant la robe prune et en découvrant du glaçage au whisky sur une boutonnière.
  2. [Les imprimantes 3D] peuvent produire des objets à partir de n'importe quel matériau comme le verre, l'acier, le bronze, le titane ou même le glaçage pâtissier. Vous pouvez imprimer une flûte, vous pouvez imprimer un repas.

This word in other languages

icing(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • galçage
  • gglaçage
  • glaaçge
  • glacage
  • glaçaeg
  • glaçagge
  • glaçgae
  • gllaçage
  • glçaage
  • lgaçage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glaçage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

galçage2gglaçage1glaaçge2glacage1glaçaeg2glaçagge1glaçgae2gllaçage1
Edit distance from "glaçage"

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 "glaçage"?
"glaçage" is spelled G-L-A-Ç-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡla.saʒ\.
What does "glaçage" mean?
As a noun, "glaçage" means: Action de glacer, d’appliquer sur un objet un enduit qui lui donne l’apparence du vernis, par exemple d’appliquer un sirop à base de sucre glace sur un gâteau.
What words are commonly confused with "glaçage"?
"glaçage" is commonly confused with "glace", "glacée", "glaçant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "glaçage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glaçage" is \ɡla.saʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "glaçage" come from?
"glaçage" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "glaçage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list