glaïeul
French, noun/ɡla.jœl/
glaïeul is spelled G-L-A-Ï-E-U-L (7 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 162,920th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glaïeul is a French masculine noun meaning “gladiolus (plant)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante herbacée de la famille des iridacées dont les feuilles sont longues, étroites et pointues”.
What does glaïeul mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegladiolus (plant)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante herbacée de la famille des iridacées dont les feuilles sont longues, étroites et pointues.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of glaïeul
- glaïeuls plural
- glayeul obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce glaïeul?
- /ɡla.jœl/
- \ɡla.jœl\
- [ɡla.jœl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to glaïeul
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glaïeul in French?
glaïeul appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).