gluten

/\ɡly.tɛn\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#17,436

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

gluten is aFrenchnoun. It means: Réseau de protéines formé lors du pétrissage d’une pâte à base de farine de certaines céréales (comme le blé), lorsque les protéines natives — principalement la gliadine et la gluténine — interagis... Pronounced \ɡly.tɛn\. Often confused with goûte and gouter.

Key facts for gluten
PropertyValue
Headwordgluten
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɡly.tɛn\
Letters6
Frequency rank#17,436
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for gluten is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡly.tɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,436 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for gluten, with forms such as "ggluten", "glluten", and "gltuen". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "goûte", "gouter", "goûtez", and more, 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 gluten, spelled G-L-U-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Réseau de protéines formé lors du pétrissage d’une pâte à base de farine de certaines céréales (comme le blé), lorsque les protéines natives — principalement la gliadine et la gluténine — interagissent en présence d’eau.
  2. 2
    Matière tenace dont on croyait qu’elle servait à lier ensemble les parties composant un corps solide, tel que les pierres, etc.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ggluten,glluten,gltuen,gluetn,glutenn,glutne,glutten,gulten,lguten

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for gluten

Misspelling Variants of "gluten"

ggluten7glluten7gltuen6gluetn6glutenn7glutne6glutten7gulten6
Misspelling Variants of "gluten"

Frequency rank: #17,436 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "gluten"?
"gluten" is spelled G-L-U-T-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɡly.tɛn\.
What does "gluten" mean?
As a noun, "gluten" means: Réseau de protéines formé lors du pétrissage d’une pâte à base de farine de certaines céréales (comme le blé), lorsque les protéines natives — principalement la gliadine et la gluténine — interagis...
What words are commonly confused with "gluten"?
"gluten" is commonly confused with "goûte", "gouter", "goûtez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "gluten"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "gluten" is \ɡly.tɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "gluten" come from?
"gluten" 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.