glissants
\ɡli.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“glissants” is uncommon French (frequency #63,027 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,027
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de glissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glissants · glissants · French
glissants · rank #63,027 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,027
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glabres
Nearest frequency peer: glabres (-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 « glissants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gingras
Gingras
36,976 corpus weight
- glabres
glabres
36,975 corpus weight
- glissants
glissants
36,974 corpus weight
- Goddard
Goddard
36,973 corpus weight
- Gorki
Gorki
36,972 corpus weight
- goudronnée
goudronnée
36,971 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glissants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glissants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡli.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glissants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glissants is uncommon French at frequency #63,027 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡli.sɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de glissant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for glissants in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is glissants, spelled G-L-I-S-S-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de glissant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glissants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’aime l’épaisseur, l’humidité, le demi-jour d’une forêt vigoureuse; les chemins glissants qui se bronzent, les formes bizarres des fonges et des morilles, le ruisseau contournant la racine, les corbeaux qui bataillent sur la cime des chênes, l’impatience du pic-vert interrogeant une écorce vermoulue, et tous les cris indistincts qui éclatent dans la soli…
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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