glop

\ɡlɔp\

/\ɡlɔp\/ onomatopoeia

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glop » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for glop
PropertyValue
Headwordglop
LanguageFrench
Part of speechOnomatopoeia
IPA\ɡlɔp\
Letters4
Frequency rank#92,786
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « glop » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).gloptombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « givrage » (#92,785), « Giuliana » (#92,784), « Gisela » (#92,783). Parmi 2,617 lemmes en « G », « glop » est au #92,786. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Onomatopée désignant un bruit difficilement identifiable.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how glop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "glop"?
"glop" is spelled G-L-O-P. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡlɔp\.
What does "glop" mean?
As an onomatopoeia, "glop" means: Onomatopée désignant un bruit difficilement identifiable.
How do you pronounce "glop"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glop" is \ɡlɔp\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "glop" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "glop", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list