gli
\ʎi\
The verdict
“gli” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,104) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,104
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de lo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gli · gli · French
gli · rank #34,104 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,104
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH girouette
Nearest frequency peer: girouette (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « gli »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- frémir
frémir
65,901 corpus weight
- girouette
girouette
65,898 corpus weight
- gli
gli
65,897 corpus weight
- glycémie
glycémie
65,896 corpus weight
- glyphosate
glyphosate
65,895 corpus weight
- goes
goes
65,894 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gli » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \ʎi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gli »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gli is neighbouring look-alikes ("go", "GR", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced \ʎi\. Frequency #34,104 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de lo.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gli, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "go", "GR", "GT", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is gli, spelled G-L-I.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de lo.
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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