glacier
\ɡla.sje\
The verdict
“glacier” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,151. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,151
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui prépare et vend des glaces, des sirops, des fruits glacés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glacier · glacier · French
glacier · rank #15,151 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,151
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gil
Nearest frequency peer: gil (-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 « glacier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gages
gages
84,853 corpus weight
- Geoffroy
Geoffroy
84,852 corpus weight
- gil
gil
84,851 corpus weight
- glacier
glacier
84,850 corpus weight
- gun
gun
84,848 corpus weight
- Hand
Hand
84,847 corpus weight
What this shows « glacier » 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 | glacier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡla.sje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glacier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around glacier (IPA \ɡla.sje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,151 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 glacier, with forms such as "galcier", "gglacier", and "glaccier". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "glaner", "glacis", "gracie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is glacier, spelled G-L-A-C-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui prépare et vend des glaces, des sirops, des fruits glacés.
- 2Établissement qui vend des glaces et sorbets.
- 3Miroitier, fabricant ou vendeur de glaces de verre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glacier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le glacier napolitain n’en persistait pas moins à vouloir fermer boutique.
Le raisonnement « les éclairs au café sont des choses délicieuses, des choses délicieuses sont vendues chez les glaciers, donc les éclairs au café sont vendus chez les glaciers » est en revanche incorrect.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- galcier
- gglacier
- glaccier
- glaceir
- glacierr
- glacire
- glaicer
- glcaier
- gllacier
- lgacier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glacier - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "glacier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).