glaise
French, noun
glaise is spelled G-L-A-I-S-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 52,567th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glaise is a French feminine noun meaning “clay” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of glaiser. With an accent, glaisé is a different word: “past participle of glaiser”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Argile grasse et compacte que l’eau ne pénètre pas et dont on se sert pour faire de la poterie, pour amender…”.
What does glaise mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineclay
- 2
feminineearth
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of glaiser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Argile grasse et compacte que l’eau ne pénètre pas et dont on se sert pour faire de la poterie, pour amender des terrains ou, en sculpture, pour modeler une ébauche de buste, de statue. 2. Glaie.
adjective: 1. Qualifie une telle terre.
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 glaise
- glaises plural
- glaisée feminine
- glaisés masculine plural
- glaisées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to glaise
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glaise in French?
glaise appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).