Glasgow
\ɡlas.ɡo\
The verdict
“Glasgow” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,963. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,963
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Écosse, située sur la rivière Clyde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glasgow · Glasgow · French
Glasgow · rank #17,963 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,963
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gigantesques
Nearest frequency peer: gigantesques (-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 « Glasgow »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gaspiller
gaspiller
82,040 corpus weight
- gigantesques
gigantesques
82,039 corpus weight
- Glasgow
Glasgow
82,038 corpus weight
- glass
glass
82,037 corpus weight
- glorieuse
glorieuse
82,036 corpus weight
- Goncourt
Goncourt
82,035 corpus weight
What this shows « Glasgow » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Glasgow |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɡlas.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Glasgow »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Glasgow (IPA \ɡlas.ɡo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,963 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Glasgow, with forms such as "galsgow", "gglasgow", and "glagsow". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Glasgow, spelled G-L-A-S-G-O-W.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Écosse, située sur la rivière Clyde.
- 2Échelle de Glasgow (échelle de mesure des comas, basée sur les réactions des patients).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Glasgow appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De tous les passagers, le plus amusant est sans contredit un bon bourgeois de Glasgow qui cherche dans les voyages un remède au spleen que lui cause le climat pluvieux de son pays.
L'étranger n'est pas resté insensible aux malheurs de nos populations : Chicago a adopté Reims ; Glasgow, Guivry et Martinpuich ; un journal de New-York, le Delincator, Landres-et-Saint-Georges des Ardennes ; M. et Mme Houston, de Philadelphie, Arcis-le-Ponsart ; une Société de Toronto (Canada), Vimy ; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- galsgow
- gglasgow
- glagsow
- glasggow
- glasgoww
- glasgwo
- glasogw
- glassgow
- gllasgow
- glsagow
- lgasgow
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Glasgow - 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 "Glasgow", 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).