glucose

/\ɡly.koz\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#17,721

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

glucose is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sucre simple le plus commun et en particulier dans sa forme D (→ voir dextrose). Pronounced \ɡly.koz\. Often confused with glaucome.

Key facts for glucose
PropertyValue
Headwordglucose
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡly.koz\
Letters7
Frequency rank#17,721
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of glucose in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for glucose is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡly.koz\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,721 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sucre simple le plus commun et en particulier dans sa forme D (→ voir dextrose).".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for glucose, with forms such as "gglucose", "glcuose", and "gllucose". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "glaucome", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is glucose, spelled G-L-U-C-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sucre simple le plus commun et en particulier dans sa forme D (→ voir dextrose).

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: gglucose,glcuose,gllucose,gluccose,glucoes,glucosse,glucsoe,gluocse,gulcose,lgucose

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for glucose

Misspelling Variants of "glucose"

gglucose8glcuose7gllucose8gluccose8glucoes7glucosse8glucsoe7gluocse7
Misspelling Variants of "glucose"

Frequency rank: #17,721 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "glucose"?
"glucose" is spelled G-L-U-C-O-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡly.koz\.
What does "glucose" mean?
As a noun, "glucose" means: Sucre simple le plus commun et en particulier dans sa forme D (→ voir dextrose).
What words are commonly confused with "glucose"?
"glucose" is commonly confused with "glaucome". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "glucose"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glucose" is \ɡly.koz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "glucose" come from?
"glucose" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.