glacer
\ɡla.se\
The verdict
“glacer” is an uncommon French word, ranked #57,299 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #57,299
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Solidifier un liquide, en sorte qu’il passe à l’état de glace.
| 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) |
Where “glacer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for glacer is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, 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.
glacer has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is glacer, spelled G-L-A-C-E-R.
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
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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Using “glacer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-L-A-C-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡla.se\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.