glauque
\ɡlok\
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
- gauchiste
gauchiste
79,261 corpus weight
- gerbe
gerbe
79,260 corpus weight
- gerber
gerber
79,259 corpus weight
- glauque
glauque
79,257 corpus weight
- grandis
grandis
79,255 corpus weight
- graphismes
graphismes
79,254 corpus weight
What this shows « glauque » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glauque »
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
- 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glauque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
La robe de Tryphèra était une mince étoffe glauque entièrement brochée d’iris à larges fleurs.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).