globe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,562
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
globe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sphère, corps sphérique. Pronounced \ɡlɔb\. It ranks #5,562 in French word frequency. Often confused with gore and gode.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | globe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlɔb\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for globe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡlɔb\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,562 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for globe, with forms such as "gglobe", "glboe", and "gllobe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gore", "gode", "gone", 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 globe, spelled G-L-O-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sphère, corps sphérique.
- 2Globe terrestre ; la planète Terre.
- 3Représentation cartographique sur une sphère de la Terre, d’un astre ou de l’espace céleste.
- 4Globe impérial ; boule d’or, surmontée d’une croix ou d'un autre motif emblématique, qui symbolisait l'univers et qui fut prise pour attribut par les derniers empereurs romains, puis par certains souverains.
- 5Enveloppe de verre ou de cristal, de forme plus ou moins sphérique dont on entoure le foyer d’une lampe pour en atténuer l’éclat ou certains objets comme une pendule pour les préserver de la poussière.
- 6Seins d’une femme plantureuse.
- 7Meuble particulier représentant dans les armoiries une sphère prise dans un cintre en forme de T renversé et surmontée d’une croisette. À rapprocher de monde, sphère et sphère armillaire.
- 8Meuble particulier représentant dans les armoiries un globe terrestre. Il s’agit d’une interprétation moderne.
- 9ampoule électrique
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gglobe,glboe,gllobe,globbe,gloeb,golbe,lgobe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for globe
Misspelling Variants of "globe"
Frequency rank: #5,562 in French
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