glop
\ɡlɔp\
The verdict
“glop” is uncommon French (frequency #92,786 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,786
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée désignant un bruit difficilement identifiable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glop · glop · French
glop · rank #92,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,786
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH givrage
Nearest frequency peer: givrage (-1 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 « glop »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Giraudeau
Giraudeau
7,219 corpus weight
- Gisela
Gisela
7,218 corpus weight
- Giuliana
Giuliana
7,217 corpus weight
- givrage
givrage
7,216 corpus weight
- glop
glop
7,215 corpus weight
- golfes
golfes
7,212 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glop » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « glop » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glop is uncommon French at frequency #92,786 among 2,617 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aucune réponse. Des glop glop dans l’appareil, une voix lointaine qui appelait « allô, allô », un gargouillis, une déchirure, la communication fut coupée.
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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