glissa
\ɡli.sa\
The verdict
“glissa” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,962. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,962
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de glisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glissa · glissa · French
glissa · rank #43,962 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,962
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Giulio
Nearest frequency peer: Giulio (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « glissa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- generali
generali
56,042 corpus weight
- Gex
Gex
56,041 corpus weight
- Giulio
Giulio
56,040 corpus weight
- glissa
glissa
56,039 corpus weight
- graduel
graduel
56,038 corpus weight
- Gramont
Gramont
56,037 corpus weight
What this shows « glissa » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | glissa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡli.sa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glissa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around glissa (IPA \ɡli.sa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,962 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de glisser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for glissa, with forms such as "gglissa", "gilssa", and "glisa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "gloss", "glissé", "glisser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 glissa, spelled G-L-I-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de glisser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glissa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un edelweiss séché glissa d’une des enveloppes de rhodoïd et M. Abel le replaça avec des gestes précautionneux sur la photo aux vilaines couleurs qui lui servait de support : sur un vague fond de mosquée, trois militaires en calot et treillis se tenaient par l’épaule.
Le plus silencieusement possible, prenant garde de ne pas faire cliqueter la chaîne, elle se mit à genoux et se glissa jusqu’à l’entrée de la tente pour jeter un œil dehors.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gglissa
- gilssa
- glisa
- glisas
- gllissa
- glsisa
- lgissa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glissa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).