glas
French, noun/ɡla/
glas is spelled G-L-A-S (4 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 28,870th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glas is a French masculine noun meaning “bell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sonnerie d’une cloche qui tinte, annonçant l’agonie ou la mort d’une personne”.
What does glas mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebell
- 2
masculinedeath knell (omen)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sonnerie d’une cloche qui tinte, annonçant l’agonie ou la mort d’une personne. 2. Annonce de la fin de quelque chose.
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.
How do you pronounce glas?
- /ɡla/
- /ɡlɑ/
- France /ɡla/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to glas
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glas in French?
glas appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).