gloire

/\ɡlwaʁ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for gloire
PropertyValue
Headwordgloire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡlwaʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,760
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of gloire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Personne dont les actions, les talents, les œuvres, etc., sont célèbres.
  3. 3
    Chose unique et remarquable.
  4. 4
    Hommage rendu à Dieu.
  5. 5
    Éclat ; splendeur.
  6. 6
    Béatitude dont on jouit dans le paradis.
  7. 7
    Cercle de lumière, auréole qui se met autour de la tête des saints ou des personnes illustres par leurs vertus.
  8. 8
    Représentation du ciel ouvert, avec les personnes divines, les anges et les bienheureux.
  9. 9
    Assemblage de rayons divergents représentant l’influence des forces divines sur le monde ; peut inclure au centre la Trinité sous la forme d’un triangle.
  10. 10
    Machine suspendue et entourée de nuages, sur laquelle se placent les personnages surhumains qui doivent descendre du ciel ou y monter.
  11. 11
    Phénomène 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gloire

Misspelling Variants of "gloire"

ggloire7gliore6glloire7gloier6gloirre7glorie6golire6lgoire6
Misspelling Variants of "gloire"

Frequency rank: #3,760 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gloire"?
"gloire" is spelled G-L-O-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡlwaʁ\.
What does "gloire" mean?
As a noun, "gloire" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "gloire"?
"gloire" is commonly confused with "gore", "glory", "gloires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gloire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gloire" is \ɡlwaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gloire" come from?
"gloire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.