glossaire
\ɡlɔ.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“glossaire” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #26,382 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #26,382
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dictionnaire spécialisé servant à expliquer le vocabulaire d'un domaine technique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glossaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlɔ.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glossaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for glossaire is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡlɔ.sɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,382 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dictionnaire spécialisé servant à expliquer le vocabulaire d'un domaine technique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for glossaire, with forms such as "gglossaire", "gllossaire", and "glosaire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is glossaire, spelled G-L-O-S-S-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Dictionnaire spécialisé servant à expliquer le vocabulaire d'un domaine technique.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gglossaire,gllossaire,glosaire,glosasire,glossaier,glossairre,glossarie,glossiare,glsosaire,golssaire,lgossaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glossaire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “glossaire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-L-O-S-S-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡlɔ.sɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.