glacer

\ɡla.se\

/\ɡla.se\/ verb

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The verdict

“glacer” is uncommon French (frequency #57,299 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,299
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Solidifier un liquide, en sorte qu’il passe à l’état de glace.

Corpus desk

Index FR-glacer · glacer · French

glacer · rank #57,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,299
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH girouettes

Nearest frequency peer: girouettes (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « glacer »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glacer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for glacer
PropertyValue
Headwordglacer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɡla.se\
Letters6
Frequency rank#57,299
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « glacer » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).glacertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « girouettes » (#57,298), « girlfriend » (#57,297), « gracia » (#57,301). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « glacer » est au #57,299. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

glacer is uncommon French at frequency #57,299 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡla.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.

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

  1. 1
    Solidifier un liquide, en sorte qu’il passe à l’état de glace.
  2. 2
    Pénétrer d’un froid très vif.
  3. 3
    Priver en partie ou entièrement de la chaleur naturelle.
  4. 4
    Déconcerter ; paralyser.
  5. 5
    Causer une émotion si forte que le mouvement du sang en est comme suspendu.
  6. 6
    Revêtir d’une couleur brillante et transparente une autre qui est déjà sèche et à laquelle on veut donner ainsi plus d’éclat, de vigueur.
  7. 7
    Couvrir de glaçage.
  8. 8
    Se solidifier en glace.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le grand froid glace les rivières, glace le vin même.
  2. Sans tapis, le parquet bien ciré vous glaçait les talons, et le Christ amaigri, pendu près d’un chevet sans oreiller, contemplait un plafond peint de brumes comme un ciel du Nord.

Synonyms

gelervernirnapper

This word in other languages

ice(English)helar(Español)glasieren(Deutsch)

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 "glacer"?
"glacer" is spelled G-L-A-C-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡla.se\.
What does "glacer" mean?
As a verb, "glacer" means: Solidifier un liquide, en sorte qu’il passe à l’état de glace.
How do you pronounce "glacer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glacer" is \ɡla.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gracia#57,301gelais#57,294habana#57,305hassen#57,307

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list