glaciales
\ɡla.sjal\
The verdict
“glaciales” is uncommon French (frequency #60,051 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,051
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de glacial.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glaciales · glaciales · French
glaciales · rank #60,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,051
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH GMC
Nearest frequency peer: GMC (+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 « glaciales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- germanophon…
germanophones
39,954 corpus weight
- Gillespie
Gillespie
39,953 corpus weight
- gisent
gisent
39,952 corpus weight
- glaciales
glaciales
39,950 corpus weight
- GMC
GMC
39,949 corpus weight
- Gohan
Gohan
39,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glaciales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glaciales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡla.sjal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glaciales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glaciales is uncommon French at frequency #60,051 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡla.sjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de glacial.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glaciales, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is glaciales, spelled G-L-A-C-I-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de glacial.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glaciales appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Situations familiales conflictuelles, trop rigoristes, glaciales, ou de laisser aller ; mais aussi situations paradoxales « à double bind » où les ordres et les conseils semblent se contredire et qui aboutissent au doute, à la perplexité, à l’arrêt paradoxal de celui « qui ne sait plus à quel saint se vouer » ; situations d’incertitude, parataxiques, hype…
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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