glacial
The verdict
“glacial” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,301. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,301
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui glace ; qui pénètre d’un froid vif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glacial · glacial · French
glacial · rank #19,301 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,301
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gibson
Nearest frequency peer: Gibson (-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 « glacial »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gate
gate
80,703 corpus weight
- gestation
gestation
80,702 corpus weight
- Gibson
Gibson
80,701 corpus weight
- glacial
glacial
80,700 corpus weight
- gouvernants
gouvernants
80,698 corpus weight
- graphisme
graphisme
80,697 corpus weight
What this shows « glacial » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glacial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glacial »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around glacial, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,301 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 glacial, with forms such as "galcial", "gglacial", and "glacail". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "glacis", "glacier", "glaciale", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is glacial, spelled G-L-A-C-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui glace ; qui pénètre d’un froid vif.
- 2Qui est d’une extrême froideur, qui déconcerte ou qui paralyse.
- 3Qui est d'une vitesse lente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glacial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par cette matinée glaciale d’octobre, où tombait un mélange de pluie et de neige fondue, les deux enfants, faute de places dans l’intérieur et la rotonde, durent se blottir sous la bâche, derrière le conducteur.
Contrairement à ce que l’on pourrait imaginer, la pêche dans les océans glaciaux est extrêmement productive pour des raison bien précises : […]
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- galcial
- gglacial
- glacail
- glaccial
- glaciall
- glacila
- glaical
- glcaial
- gllacial
- lgacial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glacial - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).