gloire
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,760
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
gloire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Renommée brillante, universelle et durable, éclat que les vertus, le mérite, les grandes qualités, les grandes actions ou les grandes œuvres attirent à quelqu’un. Pronounced \ɡlwaʁ\. It ranks #3,760 in French word frequency. Often confused with gore and glory.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gloire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gloire is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡlwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,760 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for gloire, with forms such as "ggloire", "gliore", and "glloire". 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, "gore", "glory", "gloires", 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 gloire, spelled G-L-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Renommée brillante, universelle et durable, éclat que les vertus, le mérite, les grandes qualités, les grandes actions ou les grandes œuvres attirent à quelqu’un.
- 2Personne dont les actions, les talents, les œuvres, etc., sont célèbres.
- 3Chose unique et remarquable.
- 4Hommage rendu à Dieu.
- 5Éclat ; splendeur.
- 6Béatitude dont on jouit dans le paradis.
- 7Cercle de lumière, auréole qui se met autour de la tête des saints ou des personnes illustres par leurs vertus.
- 8Représentation du ciel ouvert, avec les personnes divines, les anges et les bienheureux.
- 9Assemblage de rayons divergents représentant l’influence des forces divines sur le monde ; peut inclure au centre la Trinité sous la forme d’un triangle.
- 10Machine suspendue et entourée de nuages, sur laquelle se placent les personnages surhumains qui doivent descendre du ciel ou y monter.
- 11Phénomène optique de rétroréflexion où l’on voit son ombre projetée sur un nuage et entourée d’un halo irisé.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggloire,gliore,glloire,gloier,gloirre,glorie,golire,lgoire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "gloire"
Frequency rank: #3,760 in French
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