glaïeul
\ɡla.jœl\
The verdict
“glaïeul” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante herbacée de la famille des iridacées dont les feuilles sont longues, étroites et pointues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glaieul · glaïeul · French
glaïeul · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glaïeul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡla.jœl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
glaïeul is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡla.jœl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante herbacée de la famille des iridacées dont les feuilles sont longues, étroites et pointues.".
glaïeul has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 glaïeul, spelled G-L-A-Ï-E-U-L.
Definition
- 1Plante herbacée de la famille des iridacées dont les feuilles sont longues, étroites et pointues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glaïeul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le bord de la rivière, parmi les joncs et les glaïeuls, le cadavre d'une femme gisait. Ses longs cheveux dénoués s’éparpillaient parmi les herbes aquatiques; […].
Le marais prend dès la dernière grange : peu à peu, l'herbe devient plus rêche, des houppes laineuses y floconnent ; il y luit des nappes de joncs; la reine des près, le glaieul d'eau y buissonnent et, lentement, la sphaigne, la mousse décolorée, commence à régner, […].
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.