gloups
French, interjection/ɡlups/
gloups is spelled G-L-O-U-P-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gloups is a French interjection meaning “a swallowing sound, especially one made out of fear or embarrassment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does gloups mean in English?
interjection
- 1
a swallowing sound, especially one made out of fear or embarrassment.
Gloups ! Je suis un poisson !
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
onomatopoeia: 1. Onomatopée évoquant le bruit de la déglutition. 2. Onomatopée évoquant l’embarras.
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.
How do you pronounce gloups?
- /ɡlups/
- \ɡlups\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is gloups in French?
gloups appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).