glace
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,954
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
glace is aFrenchnoun. It means: ou Eau à l’état solide. Pronounced \ɡlas\. It ranks #1,954 in French word frequency. Often confused with Glas and glam.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlas\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for glace is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡlas\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,954 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for glace, with forms such as "galce", "gglace", and "glacce". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Glas", "glam", "glue", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is glace, spelled G-L-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ou Eau à l’état solide.
- 2Zéro degré Celsius, température de l’eau qui gèle.
- 3Table de verre blanc de dimension quelconque et d'une égale épaisseur, dont les deux faces sont polies, et qui, au moyen de l’étain préparé appliqué sur une des faces, reflète fidèlement l’image des objets. En termes de miroiterie, un miroir est une glace de petite taille.
- 4Miroir portatif.
- 5Vitrage.
- 6Crème glacée, en général aromatisée aux fruits et servie à la fin d’un repas ou comme rafraîchissement.
- 7Préparation servant à napper, à réaliser le glaçage d’un mets, → voir demi-glace.
- 8Petite tache d’un diamant.
- 9Nom donné au XVIIIᵉ siècle à certains brocarts d’or ou d’argent d’aspect lisse comme un miroir.
- 10Aire elle-même, sur laquelle évoluent les joueurs de hockey.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: galce,gglace,glacce,glaec,glcae,gllace,lgace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "glace"
Frequency rank: #1,954 in French
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