glamour
\ɡla.muʁ\
The verdict
“glamour” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,893. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,893
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glamour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡla.muʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glamour” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around glamour (IPA \ɡla.muʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,893 among 194,371 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for glamour, with forms such as "galmour", "gglamour", and "glammour". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 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 glamour, spelled G-L-A-M-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Charme 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.
- 2Créature polymorphe des contes gaéliques écossais.
- 3Pouvoir magique des contes et ballades gaéliques écossaises.
- 4État 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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glamour - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “glamour”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-L-A-M-O-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡla.muʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.