Glandu
\ɡlɑ̃.dy\
The verdict
“Glandu” is uncommon French (frequency #95,960 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,960
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille originaire du Dauphiné, notamment du département de l’Isère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glandu · Glandu · French
Glandu · rank #95,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,960
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH girolles
Nearest frequency peer: girolles (-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 « Glandu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gillon
gillon
4,045 corpus weight
- gimmicks
gimmicks
4,044 corpus weight
- girolles
girolles
4,042 corpus weight
- Glandu
Glandu
4,041 corpus weight
- gloutons
gloutons
4,040 corpus weight
- goudronné
goudronné
4,037 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Glandu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Glandu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡlɑ̃.dy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Glandu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Glandu is uncommon French at frequency #95,960 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɡlɑ̃.dy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille originaire du Dauphiné, notamment du département de l’Isère.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Glandu in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Glandu, spelled G-L-A-N-D-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille originaire du Dauphiné, notamment du département de l’Isère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Glandu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un Glandu, une Glandu, les Glandu.
Aidé du commandant Glandu et du Capitaine Leroy, Garbit va organiser une véritable campagne de prospection pour récupérer tous les Malgaches aptes à servir dans l’Artillerie.
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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