glotte
\ɡlɔt\
The verdict
“glotte” is uncommon French (frequency #61,568 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,568
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orifice du larynx qui sert à l’émission de la voix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glotte · glotte · French
glotte · rank #61,568 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,568
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glisses
Nearest frequency peer: glisses (-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 « glotte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Gizeh
Gizeh
38,436 corpus weight
- glissades
glissades
38,435 corpus weight
- glisses
glisses
38,434 corpus weight
- glotte
glotte
38,433 corpus weight
- gnose
gnose
38,432 corpus weight
- GNV
GNV
38,431 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glotte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glotte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glotte is uncommon French at frequency #61,568 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡlɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glotte, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is glotte, spelled G-L-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Orifice du larynx qui sert à l’émission de la voix.
- 2Voix.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’abord, tandis que le crapaud guette sa proie, il contracte les muscles rétracteurs de son système hyoglosse, en sorte qu’il ramène vers la glotte l’extrémité libre de la langue.
« Avalez tous ces menus plaisirs de la renommée ! Mettez-vous en jusque-là ! Et venez les vomir sur mon tapis, lorsque vous en aurez par-dessus la glotte ! »
This word in other languages
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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