glissent
\ɡlis\
The verdict
“glissent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,459. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,459
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de glisser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glissent · glissent · French
glissent · rank #27,459 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,459
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH gente
Nearest frequency peer: gente (-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 « glissent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gaspé
Gaspé
72,545 corpus weight
- gender
gender
72,544 corpus weight
- gente
gente
72,543 corpus weight
- glissent
glissent
72,542 corpus weight
- globalité
globalité
72,541 corpus weight
- gnome
gnome
72,540 corpus weight
What this shows « glissent » 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 | glissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡlis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glissent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around glissent (IPA \ɡlis\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,459 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for glissent, with forms such as "gglissent", "gilssent", and "glisent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "glisser", "glissé", "glissée", 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 glissent, spelled G-L-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de glisser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de glisser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glissent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l’on suppose que les tranches glissent parallèlement les unes sur les autres, de manière que les centres des tranches restent toujours en ligne droite, on va former un volume échelonné dont le centre de gravité sera toujours sur la ligne droite qui joint ces centres.
Toujours, hélas ! des brebis galeuses se glissent dans le troupeau.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gglissent
- gilssent
- glisent
- glisesnt
- glissennt
- glissentt
- glissetn
- glissnet
- gllissent
- glsisent
- lgissent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glissent - 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).