glouglou
\ɡlu.ɡlu\
The verdict
“glouglou” is uncommon French (frequency #99,146 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,146
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bruit que fait un liquide qui se déverse ou qui est en train de bouillir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glouglou · glouglou · French
glouglou · rank #99,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,146
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glomérulaire
Nearest frequency peer: glomérulaire (-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 « glouglou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ghanem
Ghanem
859 corpus weight
- gineste
gineste
858 corpus weight
- Globus
Globus
857 corpus weight
- glomérulaire
glomérulaire
856 corpus weight
- glouglou
glouglou
855 corpus weight
- gobin
gobin
854 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glouglou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glouglou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡlu.ɡlu\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glouglou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glouglou is uncommon French at frequency #99,146 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡlu.ɡlu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for glouglou in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is glouglou, spelled G-L-O-U-G-L-O-U.
Definition
- 1Bruit que fait un liquide qui se déverse ou qui est en train de bouillir.
- 2Autre nom du baguenaudier (Colutea arborescens ssp. gallica) ^([1]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glouglou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les gaz poussèrent des bulles dans le naphte, une sorte de glouglou régulier qui couvrait le bruit du moteur au ralenti.
Rond en affaires, bon homme, rigoleur, vous eussiez reconnu en lui l’homme aimable de la grisette, qui […] imite à table le glouglou d’une bouteille en se donnant des chiquenaudes sur une joue tendue.
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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