glisses
\ɡlis\
The verdict
“glisses” is uncommon French (frequency #61,567 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,567
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de glisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glisses · glisses · French
glisses · rank #61,567 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,567
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glissades
Nearest frequency peer: glissades (-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 « glisses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Giverny
Giverny
38,437 corpus weight
- Gizeh
Gizeh
38,436 corpus weight
- glissades
glissades
38,435 corpus weight
- glisses
glisses
38,434 corpus weight
- glotte
glotte
38,433 corpus weight
- gnose
gnose
38,432 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glisses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glisses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glisses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glisses is uncommon French at frequency #61,567 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡlis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de glisse.".
glisses has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is glisses, spelled G-L-I-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de glisse.
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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