glaires
\ɡlɛʁ\
The verdict
“glaires” is uncommon French (frequency #90,772 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,772
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de glaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glaires · glaires · French
glaires · rank #90,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,772
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glandulaire
Nearest frequency peer: glandulaire (+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 « glaires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- giratoires
giratoires
9,233 corpus weight
- Girodet
Girodet
9,232 corpus weight
- gist
gist
9,231 corpus weight
- glaires
glaires
9,229 corpus weight
- glandulaire
glandulaire
9,228 corpus weight
- globalisée
globalisée
9,226 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glaires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glaires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glaires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glaires is uncommon French at frequency #90,772 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡlɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de glaire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for glaires, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is glaires, spelled G-L-A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de glaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gus ne sortit pas de la journée, tellement il se sentait mal, à tousser et cracher des glaires comme un tubard.
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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