glousser
\ɡlu.se\
The verdict
“glousser” is uncommon French (frequency #72,371 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,371
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire son cri de communication avec ses congénères, en parlant de la poule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glousser · glousser · French
glousser · rank #72,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,371
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH Givry
Nearest frequency peer: Givry (-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 « glousser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- gigabit
gigabit
27,634 corpus weight
- Girolamo
Girolamo
27,632 corpus weight
- Givry
Givry
27,631 corpus weight
- glousser
glousser
27,630 corpus weight
- Goldschmidt
Goldschmidt
27,629 corpus weight
- gracieuseté
gracieuseté
27,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glousser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glousser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɡlu.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glousser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glousser is uncommon French at frequency #72,371 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɡlu.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for glousser in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is glousser, spelled G-L-O-U-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire son cri de communication avec ses congénères, en parlant de la poule.
- 2Crier en parlant de la perdrix, de la dinde ou de la gelinotte.
- 3Pousser de petits cris à la manière de rires étouffés, en parlant d’humains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glousser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fermes elles-mêmes dorment profondément. Seuls, les chats rôdent et les poules gloussent alentour.
Ce second appel n’eut pour résultat que d’effaroucher les poules qui s’égaillèrent en gloussant et en battant de l’aile.
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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