glop
\ɡlɔp\
The verdict
“glop” is uncommon French (frequency #92,786 among 194,371 “G” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,786
- frequency rank, French
- 194,371
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Onomatopée désignant un bruit difficilement identifiable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \ɡlɔp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #92,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glop” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
glop is uncommon French at frequency #92,786 among 194,371 “G” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \ɡlɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Onomatopée désignant un bruit difficilement identifiable.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for glop in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is glop, spelled G-L-O-P.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée désignant un bruit difficilement identifiable.
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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Using “glop”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-L-O-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.