glauque

/\ɡlok\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#20,744

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

glauque is anFrenchadj. It means: De la couleur vert moyen tirant sur le bleu comme la mer. #649B88 Pronounced \ɡlok\.

Key facts for glauque
PropertyValue
Headwordglauque
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ɡlok\
Letters7
Frequency rank#20,744
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of glauque in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for glauque is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡlok\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,744 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for glauque, with forms such as "galuque", "gglauque", and "glaquue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is glauque, spelled G-L-A-U-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: galuque,gglauque,glaquue,glauqeu,glauqque,glauuqe,gllauque,gluaque,lgauque

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for glauque

Misspelling Variants of "glauque"

galuque7gglauque8glaquue7glauqeu7glauqque8glauuqe7gllauque8gluaque7
Misspelling Variants of "glauque"

Frequency rank: #20,744 in French

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 adj, "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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.