glissière
\ɡli.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“glissière” is uncommon French (frequency #50,859 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,859
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rainure pratiquée dans un mécanisme pour le glissement d’une de ses pièces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glissiere · glissière · French
glissière · rank #50,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,859
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Giuliano
Nearest frequency peer: Giuliano (-2 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 « glissière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- geôliers
geôliers
49,146 corpus weight
- Giuliano
Giuliano
49,144 corpus weight
- glissière
glissière
49,142 corpus weight
- gotta
gotta
49,140 corpus weight
- gouvernant
gouvernant
49,139 corpus weight
- grad
grad
49,138 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glissière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glissière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡli.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glissière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glissière is uncommon French at frequency #50,859 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡli.sjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for glissière in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is glissière, spelled G-L-I-S-S-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Rainure pratiquée dans un mécanisme pour le glissement d’une de ses pièces.
- 2Organe de guidage en translation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glissière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Porte à glissière.
Glissière de sécurité, ensemble constitué par des rails de protection disposés horizontalement, à quelques dizaines de centimètres au-dessus du sol, en bordure d'une route ou entre les voies d'une autoroute, pour retenir les véhicules qui ont quitté leur axe de marche.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).