glacière

/\ɡla.sjɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#30,625

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

glacière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Glacier. Pronounced \ɡla.sjɛʁ\. Often confused with glaciers and glacée.

Key facts for glacière
PropertyValue
Headwordglacière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡla.sjɛʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#30,625
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of glacière in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for glacière is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡla.sjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,625 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.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for glacière, with forms such as "galcière", "gglacière", and "glaccière". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "glaciers", "glacée", "glacier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is glacière, spelled G-L-A-C-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Glacier.
  2. 2
    Grand creux fait en terre, ordinairement maçonné, voûté et recouvert de terre et de paille, dans lequel on conserve de la glace ou de la neige.
  3. 3
    Grand creux fait en terre, ordinairement maçonné, voûté et recouvert de terre et de paille, dans lequel on conserve de la glace ou de la neige.
  4. 4
    Meuble, avant l’invention des réfrigérateurs, utilisé pour garder au frais les aliments.
  5. 5
    Récipient isotherme portatif aux parois isolantes où l’on conserve des aliments, des boissons.
  6. 6
    Récipient isotherme portatif aux parois isolantes où l’on conserve des aliments, des boissons.
  7. 7
    Lieu ou personne qui évoque le froid d’une glacière.
  8. 8
    Celle qui prépare et vend des glaces, des sirops, des fruits glacés.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: galcière,gglacière,glaccière,glaciere,glacirèe,glacièer,glacièrre,glacèire,glaicère,glcaière,gllacière,lgacière

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for glacière

Misspelling Variants of "glacière"

galcière8gglacière9glaccière9glaciere8glacirèe8glacièer8glacièrre9glacèire8
Misspelling Variants of "glacière"

Frequency rank: #30,625 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "glacière"?
"glacière" is spelled G-L-A-C-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡla.sjɛʁ\.
What does "glacière" mean?
As a noun, "glacière" means: Glacier.
What words are commonly confused with "glacière"?
"glacière" is commonly confused with "glaciers", "glacée", "glacier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "glacière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glacière" is \ɡla.sjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "glacière" come from?
"glacière" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.