glouton
\ɡlu.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“glouton” is uncommon French (frequency #55,997 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,997
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dévore, engloutit sa nourriture avec avidité, en parlant d’un humain ou d’un animal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glouton · glouton · French
glouton · rank #55,997 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,997
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH globalisé
Nearest frequency peer: globalisé (-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 « glouton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Girault
Girault
44,007 corpus weight
- Giuliani
Giuliani
44,006 corpus weight
- globalisé
globalisé
44,005 corpus weight
- glouton
glouton
44,004 corpus weight
- Gounod
Gounod
44,003 corpus weight
- goupille
goupille
44,002 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glouton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glouton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɡlu.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glouton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glouton is uncommon French at frequency #55,997 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɡlu.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for glouton in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is glouton, spelled G-L-O-U-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Qui dévore, engloutit sa nourriture avec avidité, en parlant d’un humain ou d’un animal.
- 2Qui manifeste une grande avidité pour quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glouton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet enfant a toujours été glouton.
Le loup est un animal glouton.
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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