glamour

/\ɡla.muʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,893

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

glamour is aFrenchnoun. It means: Charme envoûtant, séduction qu’une actrice de cinéma ou une jolie femme exerce par son attitude sensuelle et sa tenue vestimentaire suggestive. Charme donné à voir, séduction apprêtée et sage, repr... Pronounced \ɡla.muʁ\.

Key facts for glamour
PropertyValue
Headwordglamour
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡla.muʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#15,893
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of glamour in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for glamour is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡla.muʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,893 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for glamour, with forms such as "galmour", "gglamour", and "glammour". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is glamour, spelled G-L-A-M-O-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Charme envoûtant, séduction qu’une actrice de cinéma ou une jolie femme exerce par son attitude sensuelle et sa tenue vestimentaire suggestive. Charme donné à voir, séduction apprêtée et sage, représentée notamment dans le cinéma américain, où la décence le dispute à l’audace.
  2. 2
    Créature polymorphe des contes gaéliques écossais.
  3. 3
    Pouvoir magique des contes et ballades gaéliques écossaises.
  4. 4
    État de rêverie qui serait propre aux Anglais.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: galmour,gglamour,glammour,glamoru,glamourr,glamuor,glaomur,gllamour,glmaour,lgamour

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for glamour

Misspelling Variants of "glamour"

galmour7gglamour8glammour8glamoru7glamourr8glamuor7glaomur7gllamour8
Misspelling Variants of "glamour"

Frequency rank: #15,893 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "glamour"?
"glamour" is spelled G-L-A-M-O-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡla.muʁ\.
What does "glamour" mean?
As a noun, "glamour" means: Charme envoûtant, séduction qu’une actrice de cinéma ou une jolie femme exerce par son attitude sensuelle et sa tenue vestimentaire suggestive. Charme donné à voir, séduction apprêtée et sage, repr...
What are common misspellings of "glamour"?
Common misspellings include "galmour", "gglamour", "glammour", "glamoru", "glamourr". The correct spelling is "glamour".
How do you pronounce "glamour"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glamour" is \ɡla.muʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "glamour" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.