glaire
\ɡlɛʁ\
The verdict
“glaire” is uncommon French (frequency #75,729 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,729
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blanc d’œuf non cuit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glaire · glaire · French
glaire · rank #75,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,729
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glorifiant
Nearest frequency peer: glorifiant (+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 « glaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gevrey
Gevrey
24,275 corpus weight
- giglio
giglio
24,274 corpus weight
- glaire
glaire
24,272 corpus weight
- glorifiant
glorifiant
24,271 corpus weight
- glorifient
glorifient
24,270 corpus weight
- gnan
gnan
24,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glaire is uncommon French at frequency #75,729 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡlɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for glaire in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is glaire, spelled G-L-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Blanc d’œuf non cuit.
- 2Liquide visqueux, inodore, filant comme du blanc d’œuf, sécrété par les muqueuses dans certaines affections.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le glaire c'est le nom qu'on donne au blanc d'œuf cru et c'est après qu'on a appelé "glaire" tout ce qui sortait de certaines muqueuses, tout ce que l'on peut sécréter.
Comme chaque fois qu’il criait très fort, sa voix s’étrangla sur une toux grasse, venue du fond de ses bronches malades avec un flot de glaires.
This word in other languages
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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