gloss
\ɡlɔs\
The verdict
“gloss” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,838. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,838
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Produit cosmétique liquide servant à donner un effet brillant et mouillé aux lèvres, il peut être incolore, teinté, pailleté, et même parfumé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gloss · gloss · French
gloss · rank #37,838 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,838
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Gobert
Nearest frequency peer: Gobert (+2 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « gloss »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gennevillie…
Gennevilliers
62,167 corpus weight
- gentilshomm…
gentilshommes
62,166 corpus weight
- gloss
gloss
62,163 corpus weight
- Gobert
Gobert
62,161 corpus weight
- goujon
goujon
62,160 corpus weight
- gould
gould
62,159 corpus weight
What this shows « gloss » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gloss |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlɔs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « gloss »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around gloss (IPA \ɡlɔs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,838 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Produit cosmétique liquide servant à donner un effet brillant et mouillé aux lèvres, il peut être incolore, teinté, pailleté, et même parfumé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for gloss, with forms such as "ggloss", "glloss", and "glos". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gros", "goes", "gods", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is gloss, spelled G-L-O-S-S.
Definition
- 1Produit cosmétique liquide servant à donner un effet brillant et mouillé aux lèvres, il peut être incolore, teinté, pailleté, et même parfumé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gloss appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour des lèvres fruitées et ultra-brillantes, et un sourire à faire tomber les bogosses, on adopte la nouveauté maquillage très girly, le gloss.
En plus d'être stylé, ce gloss dessine des courbes parfaites et bien définies, grâce à un applicateur pinceau digne des professionnels du maquillage. L'application est facile, rapide, les contours sont nets et précis. Et si vous avez eu un faux mouvement, la rectification est simplissime, d'un coup de pinceau !
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggloss
- glloss
- glos
- glsos
- golss
- lgoss
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gloss - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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