Glastonbury
The verdict
“Glastonbury” is uncommon French (frequency #76,619 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,619
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Angleterre située dans le district de Mendip.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glastonbury · Glastonbury · French
Glastonbury · rank #76,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,619
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gnocchi
Nearest frequency peer: gnocchi (+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 « Glastonbury »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Glastonbury
Glastonbury
23,382 corpus weight
- gnocchi
gnocchi
23,381 corpus weight
- godart
godart
23,380 corpus weight
- gouverna
gouverna
23,378 corpus weight
- graisseuses
graisseuses
23,377 corpus weight
- Grandin
Grandin
23,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Glastonbury » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Glastonbury » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Glastonbury is uncommon French at frequency #76,619 among 2,617 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Glastonbury appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]; et elles sont confuses et mêlées de légendes ; plusieurs de ces dernières avancent que Joseph d’Arimathée, possédant des mines d’étain en Cornouailles (les Cassitérides des phéniciens), était venu s’installer à Glastonbury.
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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