glide
\ɡlid\
The verdict
“glide” is uncommon French (frequency #82,073 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,073
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Son phonétiquement intermédiaire entre les voyelles et les consonnes, souvent utilisé pour comprendre les glides phonologiquement vocaliques et consonantiques comme « l’iode » et « le yod », lesque...
Corpus desk
Index FR-glide · glide · French
glide · rank #82,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,073
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gisaient
Nearest frequency peer: gisaient (-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 « glide »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gifford
Gifford
17,932 corpus weight
- Girouard
Girouard
17,930 corpus weight
- gisaient
gisaient
17,929 corpus weight
- glide
glide
17,928 corpus weight
- glose
glose
17,927 corpus weight
- goguenard
goguenard
17,926 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlid\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glide is uncommon French at frequency #82,073 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡlid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Son phonétiquement intermédiaire entre les voyelles et les consonnes, souvent utilisé pour comprendre les glides phonologiquement vocaliques et consonantiques comme « l’iode » et « le yod », lesque...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glide, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is glide, spelled G-L-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Son phonétiquement intermédiaire entre les voyelles et les consonnes, souvent utilisé pour comprendre les glides phonologiquement vocaliques et consonantiques comme « l’iode » et « le yod », lesquels certains linguistes appellent respectivement semi-voyelles et semi-consonnes (les autres les utilisent interchangeablement).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un des problèmes dans l’analyse des mots du mangbetu est d’établir si certains mots contiennent des glides et des occlusives glottales dans la représentation lexicale ou seulement en surface quand deux voyelles sont en contact.
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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