glisser
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,832
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
glisser is aFrenchverb. It means: Se mettre en mouvement, comme en coulant sur une surface lisse ou le long d’un autre corps. Pronounced \ɡli.se\. It ranks #6,832 in French word frequency. Often confused with graisser and glissé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡli.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for glisser is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡli.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,832 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for glisser, with forms such as "gglisser", "gilsser", and "gliser". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "graisser", "glissé", "glissa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is glisser, spelled G-L-I-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se mettre en mouvement, comme en coulant sur une surface lisse ou le long d’un autre corps.
- 2Se déplacer avec légèreté et aisance.
- 3Descendre des pentes neigeuses en glissant sur un traîneau, sur un carton, etc., voire sur le fessier.
- 4Effleurer un corps en parlant d'un instrument tranchant qui a dévié et qui n’entame pas profondément.
- 5Passer légèrement sur quelque matière.
- 6Ne faire qu’une impression légère, ou n’en faire aucune.
- 7Copuler avec.
- 8ou Faire entrer adroitement en quelque endroit ou en faire sortir.
- 9Remettre discrètement quelque chose à quelqu'un.
- 10Au handball, s’engouffrer dans le dos de la défense.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gglisser,gilsser,gliser,glisesr,glisserr,glissre,gllisser,glsiser,lgisser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for glisser
Misspelling Variants of "glisser"
Frequency rank: #6,832 in French
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