Glastonbury
The verdict
“Glastonbury” is uncommon French (frequency #76,619 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,619
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville d’Angleterre située dans le district de Mendip.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Glastonbury |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Glastonbury” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Glastonbury is uncommon French at frequency #76,619 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d’Angleterre située dans le district de Mendip.".
Glastonbury doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Glastonbury, spelled G-L-A-S-T-O-N-B-U-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Angleterre située dans le district de Mendip.
This word in other languages
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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Using “Glastonbury”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-L-A-S-T-O-N-B-U-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.