glasses
\ɡlas\
The verdict
“glasses” is uncommon French (frequency #89,761 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,761
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de glasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glasses · glasses · French
glasses · rank #89,761 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,761
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glandeurs
Nearest frequency peer: glandeurs (-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 « glasses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gioia
gioia
10,243 corpus weight
- Girona
Girona
10,242 corpus weight
- glandeurs
glandeurs
10,241 corpus weight
- glasses
glasses
10,240 corpus weight
- Glazer
Glazer
10,239 corpus weight
- goitre
goitre
10,237 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glasses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glasses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glasses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glasses is uncommon French at frequency #89,761 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡlas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de glasse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for glasses, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is glasses, spelled G-L-A-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de glasse.
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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