glacer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,299
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
glacer is aFrenchverb. It means: Solidifier un liquide, en sorte qu’il passe à l’état de glace. Pronounced \ɡla.se\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glacer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡla.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for glacer is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡla.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #57,299 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for glacer in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 glacer, spelled G-L-A-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Solidifier un liquide, en sorte qu’il passe à l’état de glace.
- 2Pénétrer d’un froid très vif.
- 3Priver en partie ou entièrement de la chaleur naturelle.
- 4Déconcerter ; paralyser.
- 5Causer une émotion si forte que le mouvement du sang en est comme suspendu.
- 6Revêtir d’une couleur brillante et transparente une autre qui est déjà sèche et à laquelle on veut donner ainsi plus d’éclat, de vigueur.
- 7Couvrir de glaçage.
- 8Se solidifier en glace.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #57,299 in French
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