glauques
\ɡlok\
The verdict
“glauques” is uncommon French (frequency #52,716 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,716
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de glauque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glauques · glauques · French
glauques · rank #52,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,716
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glaise
Nearest frequency peer: glaise (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « glauques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- genêts
genêts
47,287 corpus weight
- glaise
glaise
47,286 corpus weight
- glauques
glauques
47,285 corpus weight
- goûtent
goûtent
47,284 corpus weight
- Granier
Granier
47,283 corpus weight
- gretchen
gretchen
47,281 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glauques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glauques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡlok\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glauques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glauques is uncommon French at frequency #52,716 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡlok\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de glauque.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glauques, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is glauques, spelled G-L-A-U-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de 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.
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