glauque
\ɡlok\
The verdict
“glauque” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #20,744 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #20,744
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - De la couleur vert moyen tirant sur le bleu comme la mer. #649B88
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glauque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡlok\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glauque” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for glauque is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, 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 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
- 1De la couleur vert moyen tirant sur le bleu comme la mer. #649B88
- 2Qui est de couleur vert bleu.
- 3Qui n’a pas d’éclat, qui est sombre, malsain, opaque ou terne.
- 4Qui donne une impression de tristesse ; qui inspire la méfiance.
- 5Sombre au sens où on ne voit pas bien, qu'il peut y avoir anguille sous roche.
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.
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 “glauque”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-L-A-U-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡlok\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.