glucose
\ɡly.koz\
The verdict
“glucose” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,721. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,721
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sucre simple le plus commun et en particulier dans sa forme D (→ voir dextrose).
Corpus desk
Index FR-glucose · glucose · French
glucose · rank #17,721 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,721
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glissant
Nearest frequency peer: glissant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « glucose »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Gaspard
Gaspard
82,284 corpus weight
- gaucher
gaucher
82,283 corpus weight
- glissant
glissant
82,281 corpus weight
- glucose
glucose
82,280 corpus weight
- griffe
griffe
82,279 corpus weight
- guitares
guitares
82,278 corpus weight
What this shows « glucose » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glucose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡly.koz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glucose »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around glucose (IPA \ɡly.koz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,721 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sucre simple le plus commun et en particulier dans sa forme D (→ voir dextrose).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for glucose, with forms such as "gglucose", "glcuose", and "gllucose". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is glucose, spelled G-L-U-C-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Sucre simple le plus commun et en particulier dans sa forme D (→ voir dextrose).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glucose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus récemment, M. Berthelot, en démontrant que la mannite, comme la glucose, constituent des alcools polyatomiques, et en obtenant la fermentation alcoolique au moyen de la mannite, a rendu plus étroits les liens qui unissent ces composés [(c’est à dire les sucres)].
Le sucre de raisin que l’on appelle aussi glucose, se rencontre dans les fruits sucrés qui présentent en même temps une saveur acide, comme les raisins, les groseilles, etc. C'est cette matière qui constitue la poussière blanche que l'on remarque à la surface des raisins secs.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gglucose
- glcuose
- gllucose
- gluccose
- glucoes
- glucosse
- glucsoe
- gluocse
- gulcose
- lgucose
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glucose - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).