glucide
\ɡly.sid\
The verdict
“glucide” is an uncommon French word, ranked #83,911 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #83,911
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Type de molécule composée de carbone, d’hydrogène et d’oxygène, un des constituants essentiels des êtres vivants, qui correspond aux molécules des sucres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glucide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡly.sid\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glucide” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for glucide is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡly.sid\. Corpus data places it at rank #83,911 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Type de molécule composée de carbone, d’hydrogène et d’oxygène, un des constituants essentiels des êtres vivants, qui correspond aux molécules des sucres.".
glucide has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is glucide, spelled G-L-U-C-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Type de molécule composée de carbone, d’hydrogène et d’oxygène, un des constituants essentiels des êtres vivants, qui correspond aux molécules des sucres.
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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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Using “glucide”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is G-L-U-C-I-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɡly.sid\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.