glossolalie
French, noun/ɡlɔ.sɔ.la.li/
glossolalie is spelled G-L-O-S-S-O-L-A-L-I-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glossolalie is a French feminine noun meaning “glossolalia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Don de parler une langue étrangère sans la connaitre, don de parler la (supposée) langue des anges”.
What does glossolalie mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineglossolalia
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Don de parler une langue étrangère sans la connaitre, don de parler la (supposée) langue des anges. 2. Langage agrammatical que certains sujets produisent souvent inconsciemment.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of glossolalie
- glossolalies plural
- glottolalie
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce glossolalie?
- /ɡlɔ.sɔ.la.li/
- \ɡlɔ.sɔ.la.li\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to glossolalie
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glossolalie in French?
glossolalie appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).