glauque

\ɡlok\

/\ɡlok\/ adj

The verdict

“glauque” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,744
frequency rank, French
2,617
“G” headwords
9
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De la couleur vert moyen tirant sur le bleu comme la mer. #649B88

Corpus desk

Index FR-glauque · glauque · French

glauque · rank #20,744 · 9 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,744
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,617
  • PHOTO-FINISH gerber

Nearest frequency peer: gerber (-2 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 « glauque »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « glauque » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for glauque
PropertyValue
Headwordglauque
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɡlok\
Letters7
Frequency rank#20,744
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glauque »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).glauquese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « gerber » (#20,742), « grandis » (#20,746), « gerbe » (#20,741). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « glauque » est au #20,744. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around glauque (IPA \ɡlok\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,744 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for glauque, with forms such as "galuque", "gglauque", and "glaquue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is glauque, spelled G-L-A-U-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    De la couleur vert moyen tirant sur le bleu comme la mer. #649B88
  2. 2
    Qui est de couleur vert bleu.
  3. 3
    Qui n’a pas d’éclat, qui est sombre, malsain, opaque ou terne.
  4. 4
    Qui donne une impression de tristesse ; qui inspire la méfiance.
  5. 5
    Sombre au sens où on ne voit pas bien, qu'il peut y avoir anguille sous roche.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how glauque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. De loin en loin, quelque écueil isolé se détache sur le vert glauque de la mer et arrête les lames qui s’y brisent en jetant leur blanche écume sur sa tète noircie.
  2. La robe de Tryphèra était une mince étoffe glauque entièrement brochée d’iris à larges fleurs.

Synonyms

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • galuque
  • gglauque
  • glaquue
  • glauqeu
  • glauqque
  • glauuqe
  • gllauque
  • gluaque
  • lgauque

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glauque - 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.

galuque2gglauque1glaquue2glauqeu2glauqque1glauuqe2gllauque1gluaque2
Edit distance from "glauque"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "glauque"?
"glauque" is spelled G-L-A-U-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡlok\.
What does "glauque" mean?
As an adjective, "glauque" means: De la couleur vert moyen tirant sur le bleu comme la mer. #649B88
What are common misspellings of "glauque"?
Common misspellings include "galuque", "gglauque", "glaquue", "glauqeu", "glauqque". The correct spelling is "glauque".
How do you pronounce "glauque"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glauque" is \ɡlok\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "glauque" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "glauque", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list