glandes
\ɡlɑ̃d\
The verdict
“glandes” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,847. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,847
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de glande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glandes · glandes · French
glandes · rank #19,847 · 11 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,847
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gravier
Nearest frequency peer: gravier (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « glandes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gazeuse
gazeuse
80,157 corpus weight
- genevois
genevois
80,156 corpus weight
- glandes
glandes
80,154 corpus weight
- gravier
gravier
80,153 corpus weight
- habitez
habitez
80,151 corpus weight
- Halifax
Halifax
80,150 corpus weight
What this shows « glandes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glandes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glandes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around glandes (IPA \ɡlɑ̃d\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,847 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de glande.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for glandes, with forms such as "galndes", "gglandes", and "gladnes". 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. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "glane", "grande", "grands", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is glandes, spelled G-L-A-N-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de glande.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glandes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais sans doute toutes les glandes endocrines ne possèdent-elles pas au même point le pouvoir de faire décircuiter, par l’intermédiaire du diencéphale, le foie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- galndes
- gglandes
- gladnes
- glanddes
- glandess
- glandse
- glaneds
- glanndes
- gllandes
- glnades
- lgandes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glandes - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "glandes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).