glissant
\ɡli.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“glissant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,720. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,720
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sur quoi l’on glisse facilement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glissant · glissant · French
glissant · rank #17,720 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,720
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glucose
Nearest frequency peer: glucose (+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 « glissant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gaspard
Gaspard
82,284 corpus weight
- gaucher
gaucher
82,283 corpus weight
- glissant
glissant
82,281 corpus weight
- glucose
glucose
82,280 corpus weight
- griffe
griffe
82,279 corpus weight
- guitares
guitares
82,278 corpus weight
What this shows « glissant » 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 | glissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡli.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glissant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around glissant (IPA \ɡli.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,720 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for glissant, with forms such as "gglissant", "gilssant", and "glisant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "glissent", "glissante", "gisant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is glissant, spelled G-L-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Sur quoi l’on glisse facilement.
- 2Qui se déplace en glissant.
- 3Continu, s’enchaînant, parlant d’une durée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Georges poussa la porte, ouverte comme d’habitude. Il traversa à pas comptés le hall au carrelage glissant, trop bien astiqué, et commença de monter l'escalier.
Secouant l’éventail et le chasse-mouches de leur queue aux lueurs glissantes d’une blancheur dorée comme les rayons de la lune, les vaches grognantes n’y font-elles pas concorder le mot avec la chose dans son nom de roi des montagnes ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gglissant
- gilssant
- glisant
- glisasnt
- glissannt
- glissantt
- glissatn
- glissnat
- gllissant
- glsisant
- lgissant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glissant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).