glad
\ˈɡlæd\
The verdict
“glad” is uncommon French (frequency #53,378 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,378
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Joyeux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glad · glad · French
glad · rank #53,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,378
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glabre
Nearest frequency peer: glabre (-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 « glad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gigas
gigas
46,626 corpus weight
- gillette
gillette
46,625 corpus weight
- glabre
glabre
46,624 corpus weight
- glad
glad
46,623 corpus weight
- glissez
glissez
46,622 corpus weight
- gnomes
gnomes
46,621 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈɡlæd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glad is uncommon French at frequency #53,378 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈɡlæd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Joyeux.".
Zero misspellings are on record for glad in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is glad, spelled G-L-A-D.
Definition
- 1Joyeux.
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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