glaucome
\ɡlo.kom\
The verdict
“glaucome” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,469. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,469
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affection oculaire caractérisée par l’atrophie des membranes de l’œil et l’excavation du nerf optique, provoquant une diminution du champ visuel pouvant aller jusqu’à la cécité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glaucome · glaucome · French
glaucome · rank #43,469 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #43,469
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glissait
Nearest frequency peer: glissait (+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 « glaucome »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- getting
getting
56,535 corpus weight
- Gildas
Gildas
56,534 corpus weight
- glaucome
glaucome
56,532 corpus weight
- glissait
glissait
56,531 corpus weight
- Gloucester
Gloucester
56,530 corpus weight
- goodbye
goodbye
56,529 corpus weight
What this shows « glaucome » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glaucome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlo.kom\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glaucome »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around glaucome (IPA \ɡlo.kom\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,469 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Affection oculaire caractérisée par l’atrophie des membranes de l’œil et l’excavation du nerf optique, provoquant une diminution du champ visuel pouvant aller jusqu’à la cécité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for glaucome, with forms such as "galucome", "gglaucome", and "glacuome". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "glucose", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is glaucome, spelled G-L-A-U-C-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Affection oculaire caractérisée par l’atrophie des membranes de l’œil et l’excavation du nerf optique, provoquant une diminution du champ visuel pouvant aller jusqu’à la cécité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glaucome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le trabéculum de l’œil avec syndrome exfoliatif (avec ou sans glaucome) a été étudié au microscope électronique par Ringvold et Vegge.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- galucome
- gglaucome
- glacuome
- glauccome
- glaucmoe
- glaucoem
- glaucomme
- glauocme
- gllaucome
- gluacome
- lgaucome
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glaucome - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).